#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

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

— Dick Smothers

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Folk music is a bunch of fat people. ↗

— Bob Dylan

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

— Donal Henahan

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When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation. ↗

— Jim Messina

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

— Joni Mitchell

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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. ↗

— Van Morrison

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You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture. ↗

— Sonny Terry

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