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If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
Langhorne Slim
Tags: Music People Like
I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.
Roger McGuinn
If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
B. B. King
Tags: Good Money You
I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.
B. B. King
Tags: Time Music People
My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical.
Skylar Grey
Tags: Great Music Dad
I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
David Lynch
Tags: Because Really Up
I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.
Courtney Love
Tags: Music Like Think
I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.
Jeannette Walls
Tags: Music Like Love
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I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.


B. B. King
Tags: Me Just Going
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I really like listening to music in my car.


Aaron Neville
Tags: Music Car Like
I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.
Michelle Branch
Tags: Teen Think More
I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.
Judy Collins
Tags: Think Just Even
I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.
Fetty Wap
I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
Salma Hayek
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.
Doug Henning
Tags: Like Being Thing
I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.
Greg Lake
Tags: Music Like Want
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I was a wedding singer as a teenager.


John Legend
I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.
Ronnie Milsap
Tags: Music About Had
I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
Laura Bell Bundy
Tags: Music Out Life
Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees.
Alex Clare
Tags: Really Up Lot