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I was reared on folk music.


Rufus Wainwright
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I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.


John Lydon
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I always play songs that are very based in folk music.


Jenny Scheinman
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I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.


Joni Mitchell
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I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
Stephen Stills
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I'm a folk artist at heart.


Jenny Scheinman
Tags: Heart Artist Folk
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But the reality is that we are a folk band.


Amy Ray
Tags: Reality Band Folk
The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too.
George Grove
Tags: Music Who Way
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How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.


John Fahey
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I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.


Lara Spencer
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I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.


Bruce Springsteen
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What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.


Charlie Adam
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I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.
Alan Lomax
Tags: Music Me Go
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I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.


Sufjan Stevens
Tags: You Just Where
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Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.


Sam Walton
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The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.


Patrick Kavanagh
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If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
Langhorne Slim
Tags: Music People Like
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.


Charles Baudelaire
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I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.
Roger McGuinn
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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I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.


Nathan Lane
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Early American music and early folk music, before the record became popular and before there were pop stars and before there were venues made to present music where people bought tickets, people played music in the community, and it was much more part of a fabric of everyday life. I call that music 'root music.'
Jon Batiste
Tags: Music People More
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
William Feather
When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.
Doug Henning
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I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
Frank Black
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Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
Roald Dahl
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.
Leslie Fiedler
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.
Ray Stannard Baker
Tags: Life Than His
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
When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that.
Nico Mirallegro
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My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.
Mo Yan
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Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.
Brownie McGhee
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The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.
Hart Crane
All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.
Chris Hillman
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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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I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.
Ted Naifeh
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I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves.
Mick Fleetwood
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I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.
Loudon Wainwright III
Tags: Music Like Think
There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.
Stan Sakai
This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
Tavis Smiley
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