#folk music

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

#between #came #circumstance #compelling #equals

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

#big #college #college kids #did #folk

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

#back #bobby #book #collected #come

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 got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child. ↗

— Stephen Stills

#because #child #college #college kids #folk

He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#classical #crazy #elements #even #folk

Folk music is a bunch of fat people. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#fat #folk #folk music #music #people

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

— Ben Harper

#called #center #family #folk #folk music

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors. ↗

— Donal Henahan

#folk #folk music #known #left #long

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