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My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

~Ben Harper

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I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

~Ben Harper

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Folk music is where I come from originally. The very first thing that introduced me to playing guitars at all was skiffle - my cousin had been in London the summer that skiffle was big.

~Bjorn Ulvaeus

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Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

~Bob Dylan

Topics: Bunch Fat Folk Folk Music Music People

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I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

~Bob Dylan

Topics: Became Because Folk Folk Music Had Interested Make Music Somehow

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What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

~Bono

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Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

~Brownie Mcghee

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We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It's fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive.

~Chris Stapleton

Topics: Alive As Far As Before Bluegrass Blues Combine Concerned Country Country Music Far Folk Folk Music Fun Genre Hat History Keep Know Make Make Up Music Old Part Songwriting Storytelling Things Those Time Tip Tradition Up You

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In 'Spinal Tap,' there's the fake historical quality of 'Stonehenge.' It's something the musicians look at with a mystical reverence. In folk music, it's the seriousness with which these people approach their 'art.'

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Approach Art Fake Folk Folk Music Historical Look Music Musicians Mystical People Quality Reverence Seriousness Something Spinal Tap Which

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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. I felt a calling.

~David Crosby

Topics: Actor Affinity Being Business Calling Father Felt Folk Folk Music Great Know Later More Movie Movie Business Music Myself People Singing Songs Started Than Then Thought Would Write You

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