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Joni Mitchell Quote: 'I came through folk music simply ...'

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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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I was reared on folk music.


Rufus Wainwright
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
Stephen Stills
Tags: Music Because Got
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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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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
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I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.


Dwight Yoakam
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
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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
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I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
Mick Jagger
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Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.


Aaliyah
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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
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I feel like I've become less of a music snob and less of a snob about a lot of things because I realize I came off as such a bad person because of that.
Joe Trohman
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I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.


Shane Smith
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Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.


Joe Namath
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I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.


Howard Schultz
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I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.


Mike Nichols
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I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.
Robert Morgan
There wasn't a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.
Terry Teachout
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Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.
Fritz Sauckel
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