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All of us '60s pop stars came from old cities which had a jazz club, a folk club, a coffee house, and an art school.
I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.
I always felt music to be universal and undifferentiated - Western classical, folk, Carnatic or Hindustani and so on.
My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.
Malayalis tend to be nostalgic about rustic storylines, pastoral themes and ordinary folk who lead a simple way of life.
Many of the short videos on Vine feel as though they belong to an ever-evolving, completely new genre of modern folk art.
Gujarat is truly vibrant. Be it handicrafts, folk music, art, costumes or food - the state offers the best of everything.
In society at large, nerds are law-abiding, caring, fundamentally good folk who keep the wheels of civilization grinding.
My mother went to work in the homes of white folk, usually living in and looking after their children. The money was small.
In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I got an electric guitar.
My parents knew about the story of Aladdin far before the animation film. It's a folk tale that is very prevalent in Egypt.
Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.
Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.
I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.
When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.
John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.
Trans folk are so often pushed to the margins and not afforded the resources and opportunities that some nontrans people are.
I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.
If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.
At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry.
The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.
I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
When I was a kid, I was interested in folk music. But rock represented power, and I became the best rock guitarist in my school.
I started off as a mimicry artist, have sung 'Gaana' folk music and popularized pop music in the South before I got into acting.
I love the U.K. folk scene. In the States, nobody knows what to do with me. There's still a very narrow definition of Americana.
When I first moved to London, there was talk of a folk revival, with annoying names like nu-folk that made me feel slightly ill.
If you call yourself a singer, then you must have the ability to sing anything, whether it's pop, classical, rock, sufi, or folk.
I used to have a protest folk band in high school, and I wrote all my own songs. Then, in the B-52s, we would write collectively.
I think the perception of audiences that love folk and country is they're perceived to be more closed-minded than they really are.
Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's not true.
Improv Olympics, Second City are some of the most tolerant, accepting people. They're like circus folk. They're freaks themselves.
I find inspiration from a lot of different texts and really old stories and folk tales - things I feel like no one else is reading.
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.
My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.
I love British folk music, but I'm not obsessed with it. I love the Celtic stuff, and Enya is a favorite, but that's more electronic.
Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to other people to produce me.
I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles Davis, Sly Stone and David Bowie.
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
To be honest, I'm really into folk music, and I love Big Phony. I like Priscilla Ahn, and yeah, I really support Asian-American artists.
From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way.
What's quite nice about this whole folk movement is that it's born out of genuine friendship. And nobody's infringing on anybody's space.
I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.
Of the music that we've done over the years, the things that are the most requested are the hymns. And folk music is also high on the list.
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.