#folk_music

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

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The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

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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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Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. ↗

— Paul Whiteman

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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

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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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This machine kills fascists. ↗

— Woody Guthrie

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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

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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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