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• I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it’s been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

  Garrett Hedlund

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• I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons. I learned how to listen to George Jones records and the Louvin Brothers.

  Emmylou Harris

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• I absolutely love American folk art, can’t get enough of it.

  Lara Spencer

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• Folk is bare bones music.

  Benjamin Chase Harper

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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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• I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn’t a lot of music that I don’t like… except for Show Tunes.

  Terri Windling

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• Folk-rock hasn’t changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

  Steve Forbert

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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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• Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the ’70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.

  Serj Tankian

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• I never saw myself as a folk singer.

  Bob Dylan

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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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• I’m just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

  Robert Wyatt

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• We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth’s noise.

  Daisy Berkowitz

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• Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

  Edward Thorndike

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• This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

  William Faulkner

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• There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

  Eugene Chadbourne

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• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  Randy Bachman

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  Tags in Son, Acoustic, Folk, Dying, 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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