#folk_music

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

— Robert Plant

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This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight into it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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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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Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.' ↗

— Ani DiFranco

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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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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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I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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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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