#folk_music

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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Folk is bare bones music. ↗

— Ben Harper

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I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music. ↗

— Renee Fleming

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

— Dick Smothers

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This machine kills fascists. ↗

— Woody Guthrie

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I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow. ↗

— Bob Dylan

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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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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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