“One kid said to me, he said, Mr. Lloyd, we really owe you. And I explained to him, man, you owe me absolutely nothing. I said, whatever kind of career I had, it has served me well, but you do owe some people. And the people you owe are the folks who are going to come behind you. It's incumbent upon each watch — when you play your 10, 11 years and you're in your group — when you leave, I truly hope that you've done all you can possibly do to leave it a better place for the folks who come behind you.” PeopleMenYearsWellsKindSaidDonePlayKidsBehindsCareersWatchesGroupsFolksBetter PlaceBehind YouAbsolutely NothingIncumbents Author:Earl Lloyd
“After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion.” LittlesDoeRealHouseGroupsCollegeFolksIntellectCoffeePursueOccupationNightclubsComplexionReal WorkCoffee Houses Author:Marshall Brickman
“I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.” ActorsGroupsCoupleGuitarFolksUnderwearMaking A LivingBurritos Author:Alan Arkin
“The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.” BodyGroupsPeriodsFolksCaliforniaSouthernUrbanFolk MusicSouthern California Author:Sam Hinton
“I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.” ThinkingImportantSometimesPlayFactsHappensTogetherDifferencesWatchesGroupsMusicianJazzFolksScoreShut UpClassical MusicImprovisingClassical Musicians Author:Brian Eno
“Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.” PeopleTryingBitsVoiceAliveGroupsMusic IsFolksBoringMinoritiesBalletFolk MusicMinority Groups Author:John Lennon
“I'm actually the chairman of the historical foundation [in Franklin] called the Heritage Foundation in Franklin. We've got a pretty good group of folks, very influential folks, who are really striving to protect those lands and so far we're not having a lot of problems. We're growing too fast. Everybody wants to put up some sort of neighborhood but that's our biggest battle. Nobody's really trying to go on any of the historical land.” WantTryingProblemGrowingGroupsLandGoes OnBattleProtectFoundationHistoricalStriveFolksNeighborhoodHeritageInfluentialChairmanFranklin Author:Michael W. Smith