56 Quotes About Folk


  • Author James Vincent McMorrow
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    I've got an Avalon guitar - that's the company that used to be Lowden. They come out of Ireland, and they're like these folk kind of guitars. You can pick 'em, you can strum 'em - they're quite good.

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  • Author Larry Meyers
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    Jeremy personifies the guy singing his own songs, which is very much an outgrowth of the folk tradition.

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  • Author Roger McGuinn
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    I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old Town School of Folk Music. I used to go to Pete Seeger concerts, and he would do songs like 'Ruben Ranzo' and talk about how the sailors sang songs to do their work - to raise the anchors, pull up the sails and that sort of thing.

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  • Author Roger McGuinn
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    I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

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  • Author Stephen Mangan
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    If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

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  • Author Tom Neff
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    A lot of people might think folk music is dead, but it's so not.

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