Folk Quotes

Growing up, we had folk records. Alison Krauss
Folk Records Had Up Growing Growing Up
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war. Allan Massie
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I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore. Amos Lee
Music Folk Folk Music Know Anymore Really Means
The Marathi film 'Natrang' has amazing songs. I also like and have sufi and folk music. Amruta Khanvilkar
Music Amazing Folk Folk Music Songs Like Also Film Sufi
I love folk; that's a big part of my background. Amy Lee
Love Big Background Folk Part Big Part
But the reality is that we are a folk band. Amy Ray
Reality Band Folk
Clarinet is often associated with certain genres, like swing or folk music. I combine the old and new, using the clarinet as an expressive tool and not in one genre. I'm just happy that people are drawn to what I do. Anat Cohen
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Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain! Angie Stone
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Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.' Ani DiFranco
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It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour. Ann Wilson
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Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere. Arlo Guthrie
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It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs. Barry McGuire
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I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters. Bear Grylls
Society High Folk Determined Come Line Grand
I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz. Bela Fleck
Music Jazz Think Folk Well Mixture Lot Bluegrass Acoustic Roots Electronic Electronic Music Funk
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. Ben Harper
Music Family Folk Folk Music California Owns Store Center
I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music. Ben Harper
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I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a week, and then I went to shows and wrote. I did a lot of music writing before I actually started playing music. Benjamin Booker
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At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement. Bernice Johnson Reagon
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Folk music is where I come from originally. The very first thing that introduced me to playing guitars at all was skiffle - my cousin had been in London the summer that skiffle was big. Bjorn Ulvaeus
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I never saw myself as a folk singer. Bob Dylan
Myself Saw Folk Folk Singer Never Singer
I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I hear in my head I don't always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I'm not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know. Bonnie Raitt
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Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off. Bonnie Raitt
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I find inspiration from a lot of different texts and really old stories and folk tales - things I feel like no one else is reading. Borns
Old Reading Else Folk Find Inspiration No-One Feel Like Tales Lot Texts Different Stories Really Things
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references. Carlisle Floyd
Music Unless Out Would Would-Be Folk Write Never Know Obvious References American American Music Appalachian Set
I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything. Cass McCombs
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From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me. Cat Power
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