#folk music

I came late to the genre of folk music. ↗

I always thought I was singing American folk music. ↗

#american #folk #folk music #i #i always

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#appalachian #doing #emotional #fiddler #folk

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have. ↗

— Janis Ian

#any #artists #be humble #especially #even

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. ↗

— Paul Whiteman

#folk #folk music #jazz #machine #machine age

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

#american music #any #celtic #early #except

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids. ↗

— Dick Smothers

#college #college kids #folk #folk music #hot

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#because #folk #folk music #had #i

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. ↗

— Ben Harper

#called #center #family #folk #folk music

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar. ↗