#folk_music

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#delta #folk #folk music #heaven #idea

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. ↗

— Paul Whiteman

#folk #folk music #jazz #machine #machine age

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes. ↗

— Terri Windling

#american music #any #celtic #early #except

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

This machine kills fascists. ↗

— Woody Guthrie

#guitar #music #power-of-music #music

It's one of those songs that everybody knows, but you are not supposed to do, because everyone does it, only no-one does it, because you're not supposed to do it, because everyone does it....if you follow that.... ↗

— Gloria Jackson

#confusing #folk-music #music