#folk_music

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music. ↗

— Tom Glazer

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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 sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

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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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I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child. ↗

— Stephen Stills

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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

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Folk music is a bunch of fat people. ↗

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. ↗

— Ben Harper

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When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar. ↗