#folk_music

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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I came late to the genre of folk music. ↗

— Tom Morello

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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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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. ↗

— Louis Armstrong

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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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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

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I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

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There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics. ↗

— Robert Plant

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