Folk Songs Quotes
Tradition, voice and reinvention
These Folk Songs quotes describe carrying an old tradition forward, much the way earlier artists borrowed and retold songs long Because folk music has always evolved that way.
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
I've been getting interested in reimagining folk songs and writing songs that should have existed but didn't, particularly around the Civil War when black voices were muted and only allowed particular channels.
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There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that...
What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like...
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There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.
Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.
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One quote even recalls mixing old folk songs with new sounds down in Greenwich Village, a reminder that Black voices and other muted histories deserve renewed attention in folk tradition.
