#folk_music

You know when I'm down to my socks it's time for business That's why they're called business socks It's business, it's business time ↗

— Flight of the Conchords

#humor #music #business

Martin Carthy on English folk music: "I'm not interested in heritage - this stuff is alive. ↗

— Martin Carthy

#music

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

#business #every #every time #folk #folk music

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

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#delta #folk #folk music #heaven #idea

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

— Dick Smothers

#college #college kids #folk #folk music #hot

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

— Stephen Stills

#because #child #college #college kids #folk

This machine kills fascists. ↗