#folk_music

Folk is bare bones music. ↗

— Ben Harper

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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played. ↗

— Jackson Browne

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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#could #couple #folk #folk music #hits

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have. ↗

— Janis Ian

#any #artists #be humble #especially #even

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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Folk music is a bunch of fat people. ↗

— Bob Dylan

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Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music. ↗

— Warren Zevon

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Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors. ↗

— Donal Henahan

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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. ↗

— Michael Storm

#banjo #folk #folk music #guitar #i

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. ↗

— Van Morrison

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