#folk

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war. ↗

— Allan Massie

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I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better. ↗

— Harry Mathews

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I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

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Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. ↗

— Brownie McGhee

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But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there. ↗

— Roger McGuinn

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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else. ↗

— Barry McGuire

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The only really happy folk are married women and single men. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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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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