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Northeastern folk music influenced me from a very young age. Sachin Dev Burman is one of the inspirational musicians in Indian film music. The way he fused folk music with his signature style is amazing. So, I am aware of the beauty of northeast folk music.

~Adnan Sami

Topics: Age Am Amazing Aware Beauty Film Film Music Folk Folk Music He His Indian Influenced Inspirational Me Music Musicians Northeast Signature Style Very Way Young Young Age I Am

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We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature.

~Adolph Green

Topics: Among Big Certain Class Folk Had Intellectual Intelligent Just Kind Middle Middle Class Nature Nice Prestige Really Sort Suppose Urban Very

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Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time.

~Aidan Gillen

Topics: About Ambitious Baltimore Big Both Cities First First Time Folk Had Manchester Queer Scope Stories Telling Time Two Were Wire

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From a young age, I was encouraged to sing, dance and learn folk and popular songs in Spanish.

~Ailyn Perez

Topics: Age Dance Encouraged Folk Learn Popular Sing Songs Spanish Young Young Age

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Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

~Al Stewart

Topics: About Attention Audience Beat Cent Country Cult Else Folk Heavy Heavy Metal Historical Image Interested Kind Lyrics Metal Most Off Only Pays Per Rap Rest Rock Some Sound Thing Three Tribal Two Western Words

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My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family knew a lot of great folk musicians of the time, like Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Leadbelly. They were all people we knew.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: All People Around Family Father Folk Great Hung Knew Like Lot Musicians Painter Paul People Singing Time Were Woody

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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.

~Alan Garner

Topics: Child Folk Grandmother Had Interest Me Mother No Interest Nursery Read Rhymes Stories Whatsoever Writing

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I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

~Alan Lomax

Topics: American Back Bobby Book Collected Come Days Dylan Folk Folk Music Go He Knew Lived Me Music Next Ought Saying See Sing Songs Used Village

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Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

~Alan Parsons

Topics: Artist Convention Did Few Folk Gigs Real Rock Roots Style

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In society at large, nerds are law-abiding, caring, fundamentally good folk who keep the wheels of civilization grinding.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Caring Civilization Folk Fundamentally Good Grinding Keep Large Law-Abiding Nerds Society Wheels Who

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