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Stephen Stills Quote: 'I got hooked into folk music ...'

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The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too.
George Grove
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I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.


Joni Mitchell
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I was reared on folk music.


Rufus Wainwright
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I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.


John Lydon
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I always play songs that are very based in folk music.


Jenny Scheinman
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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
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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
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Early American music and early folk music, before the record became popular and before there were pop stars and before there were venues made to present music where people bought tickets, people played music in the community, and it was much more part of a fabric of everyday life. I call that music 'root music.'
Jon Batiste
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Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'
Ani DiFranco
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I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.


Johnny Gimble
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I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway.
Iyanla Vanzant
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I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents' disappointment. I attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers where Bill Esper was, and that is where I really got hooked on the art of acting, and, almost, the chemistry of acting.
Roger Bart
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I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.
Salmon P. Chase
Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.
Danica McKellar
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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
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Katie McGrath got me hooked on the 'Great British Bake Off.' It's ruining my life.


Jessica De Gouw
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I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Maybe that is why kids like Dumbledore: because he is funny rather than a miserable old sod with a long white beard.
Michael Gambon
I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself.
Jolene Blalock
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Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.


Takashi Murakami
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