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You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.
Terry Pratchett / Author
Folk Songs
Folks
Song
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Folk songs, whatever else they might be, are mainly craft.
David Means /
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Craft
Folk
Mainly
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If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song
Oscar Isaac / Actor
Folk Songs
Folks
Song
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I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em.
Big Bill Broonzy / Singer-Songwriter
Folk Songs
Heard
Horse
Folk
Guess
Sing
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Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people.
Hank Williams /
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Working
Express
Folk
Hopes
Prayers
Working People
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There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.
Eugene Chadbourne / Guitarist
Bridges
Building
Died
Folk Songs
Peasants
Song
Folk
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I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.
Fritz Lang / Filmmaker
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Opera
Concert
Folk
Horses
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I can go from doing an electronic track to hip-hop to even folk songs. I think people like that variety in me.
Hyuna /
Folk Songs
Variety
Me People Doing
Electronic
Folk
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From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way.
Shawn Amos / Singer-Songwriter
Dedicated
Folk Songs
Intelligent
American Way
Chain
Folk
Gangs
Musicians
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Well, I didn't go to Julliard or anything. I'm basically self-taught. When I was younger, I wrote folk songs on a guitar my father gave me.
Kemp Muhl / Model
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Self Taught
Folk
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My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
Dan Auerbach / Musician
Folk Songs
Get Together
Guitar
Mum
Normal
Play
Song
Family Together Me
Blues
Guitars
Folk
Harmonica
Upright
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I have sung as many as 6,000 songs of various hues, be they classical, pop or folk songs. I have even performed free of charge for the Maharashtra government.
Asha Bhosle /
Government
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Free
Charge
Classical
Folk
Hues
Performed
Sung
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American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of my songs are about that, even though they were misunderstood.
John Mellencamp / Singer-Songwriter
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Tragedy
Folk
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I guess fusion would be the best way to describe my music. I think it also goes into the spectrum of electronic and dance with inspiration from Indian folk songs.
Vidya Vox /
Best Way
Folk Songs
Fusion
Spectrum
Best Music Way
Best Music Dance
Describe
Electronic
Folk
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As I was born and brought up in Himachal Pradesh, I used to listen to a lot of Hindi songs over radio apart from ghazals, western music, and 'Himachali' folk songs.
Mohit Chauhan /
Folk Songs
Hindi
Folk
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My musical influences growing up were limited to Korean folk songs and hymns as I went to a Christian boarding school where I was not allowed to listen to secular music.
Jihae /
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Hymns
Secular
Boarding
Boarding School
Folk
Influences
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Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.
Bonnie Raitt / Singer-Songwriter
Ballads
Contemporary
Folk Songs
Guitar
Rocks
Song
Blues
Folk
Hour
Hour And A Half
Pat
Pull
Rock Band
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But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
Roger Mcguinn / Musician
Imagination
Folk Songs
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Mixing
People
Song
Village
Beat
Developed
Folk
For The People
Taking
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People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.
David Soul / Actor
Education
Jobs
Advantage
Blue Eyed
Folk Songs
Mexican
Song
Strange
Education Music Me
Became
Blond
Folk
Sang
Norwegian
Ticket
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I've been getting interested in reimagining folk songs and writing songs that should have existed but didn't, particularly around the Civil War when black voices were muted and only allowed particular channels.
Rhiannon Giddens /
Civil War
Folk Songs
Channels
Existed
Folk
Muted
Voices
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We have harmonies, folk songs, and compositions attached to each occasion - ranging from birth, harvest, to our festivals. Our country thrives on culture, music, and arts. Musically, ours is a very rich country.
Shankar Mahadevan /
Festivals
Folk Songs
Thrive
Attached
Folk
Harmonies
Musically
Occasion
Ours
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I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of those songs, in the musical style of the songs themselves; love songs, folk songs, marches, football.
Tom Lehrer / Singer-Songwriter
Folk Songs
Love Time Football
Attitudes
Folk
Immersed
Love Songs
Marches
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What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.
Justin Townes Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Bob
Dylan
Folk Songs
Song
Woody
Writing
Music Done Always
Bob Dylan
Music Always Done
Music Song Always
Folk
Guthrie
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Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership.
Jimmy Reid / Politician
Folk Songs
Genius
House
Ownership
Responsible
Scottish
Song
Treasure
Burns
Claim
Collected
Enriched
Folk
Mainly
Melodic
Robert
Usable
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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
Patrick Ness / Author
Folk Songs
Give Me
Heavy
Heavy Metal
Jewellery
Great Me Weird
Folk
Metal
Wonderful Thing
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If some independent artists are using film as a medium to reach out to an audience, it should be promoted. Cinema is a popular medium and has a broad reach. There have been films with ghazals, classical and folk songs sung by local artists, which gave them popularity.
Shankar Mahadevan /
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Popularity
Broad
Classical
Folk
Medium
Promoted
Sung
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There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about.
Pritam Chakraborty /
Folk Songs
Tunes
Folk
Remake
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My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of them are his interpretations of the Dust Bowl-era folk songs, or even going back as far as the mass influx of people coming into the U.S. during the gold rush. His interpretations of those songs are incredible.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Bob
Dust
Dylan
Folk Songs
Gold
Mass
Song
Very
As Far As
Back
Bob Dylan
Those
He
Favorite
Coming
First
Even
Rest
Far
First One
Folk
His
Incredible
Interpretations
Record
Rush
Sings
Where
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The first songs I learned were 'It Takes a Worried Man' and Woody Guthrie's 'Grand Coulee Dam,' 'Rock Island Line' - those kind of American folk songs that were probably on the edge of blues. After that was Eddie Cochran and Chuck Berry songs. And then I heard Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed and Big Bill Broonzy on the radio.
Rory Gallagher / Multi-Instrumentalist
Chuck
Folk Songs
Heard
Jimmy
Muddy
Radio
Woody
Worried
Reed
Berry
Bill
Blues
Dam
Eddie
Folk
Island
Grand
Guthrie
Learned
Line
Rock
Takes
Waters
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My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.
Joe Perry / Guitarist
Dinner
Eight
Electric
Electric Guitar
Folk Songs
Hours
Portuguese
Seven
Ukulele
Amp
Version
Fender
Finish
Folk
Wait
Spend
Pull
Sounds
Uncle
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