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My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.

David Crosby

Music

Business

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.

It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.

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

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em.

Big Bill Broonzy

Folk

Songs

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

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

Daisy Berkowitz

Folk

Youth