#folk music

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

— Johnny Rotton

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I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music. ↗

— Katey Sagal

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My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. ↗

— David Crosby

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I always thought I was singing American folk music. ↗

— Lonnie Donegan

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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played. ↗

— Jackson Browne

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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid. ↗

— Jackson Browne

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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

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Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. ↗

— Paul Whiteman

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

— Dick Smothers

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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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