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Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.
I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.
I have always loved composers who have been connected with folk traditions of popular music.
I can work across all genres of music be it classical, hip-hop, western, traditional or folk.
I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
From a young age, I was encouraged to sing, dance and learn folk and popular songs in Spanish.
I'm an old-fashioned folk singer. I stand in front of an audience with a guitar and a barstool.
I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.
I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.
I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.
I have tried to show the influence of folk music in Bollywood, in Tamil movies, in Telugu cinema.
I guess what I find interesting is city folk are the least capable of survival of any human being.
I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.
I don't get people asking me to fight face-to-face but there's a lot of brave folk on the Internet.
I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.
Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
The soundtrack for 'Hemlock Grove' got me into all this goth folk gypsy music like the Dead Brothers.
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk.
It's fine if folk don't like my sense of humour. But if somebody misunderstands, then that hurts a bit.
Before I begin to write, I listen to music that inspires me. I listen to folk Punjabi music, sufi music.
I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
Western, jazz, folk, or tribal music, whatever the form, they all have the same sapta swaras as the basis.
I was wearing leather studded jackets, but I was playing acoustic folk music, so it was quite a weird mix.
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.
What makes one type of music classical and one bluegrass and one folk - these things aren't what's important.
I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything.
From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.
My whole life, I've always had one foot in the classical world and one foot in the rock, pop, and folk world.
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.
I can go from doing an electronic track to hip-hop to even folk songs. I think people like that variety in me.
I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
Parajanov's love for the folk culture is quite infectious. The way that he loves everything on screen, I relate.
I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties.
Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.