235 Folk Quotes for You to Enjoy

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes. Terri Windling

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I came late to the genre of folk music. Tom Morello

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Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue. Tom Morello

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I was in high school and I had an independent album out, and we kept sending that out, and I was doing shows. No one really dug it. It was very Americana and had a lot of folk elements in it. Tyler Hilton

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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. Van Morrison

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I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though. Vance Joy

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Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music. Warren Zevon

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It's important to me to not stay too confined to any specific sonic space. There is something really magical about straight folk music - it's not that I don't like it, it's just that I like so much music, I hear so many different things, and I want to try more. I don't want to be confined. Weyes Blood

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I feel just as passionately about experimental electronic music as I do about folk music. Weyes Blood

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Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak. Will Self

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I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism. William Gibson

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Trans folk are so often pushed to the margins and not afforded the resources and opportunities that some nontrans people are. Trace Lysette

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I've been getting interested in reimagining folk songs and writing songs that should have existed but didn't, particularly around the Civil War when black voices were muted and only allowed particular channels. Rhiannon Giddens

The thing is, I was more blues-oriented, more of a purist than in the pop world. That led me into a folk rock trio and to Ginger Baker before I started recording on my own. Denny Laine

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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters. P. J. O'Rourke

I can work across all genres of music be it classical, hip-hop, western, traditional or folk. Gopi Sundar

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All these years, I have never forgotten what my parents have given me, and that is why I take special pride in composing music based on ragas and used folk music in films like 'Apne Paraye.' Bappi Lahiri

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In the commercial music world, the folk world, we sell records and concert tickets - this is the way I make a living. You go out, you make your art and hopefully people will put their money down for it. But it's getting hard. I have to be on the road so much to keep the lights on. Rhiannon Giddens

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