As we see in folk music quite often, emotion transforms what might otherwise be considered 'corny' (i.e. trite, banal, sentimental) music into valid, moving art.
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Related I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being ... ROGER MCGUINN I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's co... LANGHORNE SLIM I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other... KAILASH KHER As an artist, you make music. And if you see people who don't know how to market your music, you... JAY-Z The folk thing was about civil rights... ... Folk music is the music of the working class, the music... OTIS TAYLOR I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae. ANNE LAMOTT Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure ... GUY DEBORD I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ALBERT EINSTEIN It's absolutely pure stewardship, the beneficial use of what otherwise might be considered waste. MARK BRYANT Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things. IGGY AZALEA I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot ... TERRI WINDLING I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unle... CARLISLE FLOYD We want our music and ideas to be in the forefront, and what we learned permeated our thinking. Noti... DON KENNEDY For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep i... PAT METHENY Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like co... BJORK When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, ... TOM GLAZER Jane, the family and the doctors keep me going. CHARLES MUSIC We're trying to stay ahead of the ball game. We feel we will qualify for grants and loans that are p... CHARLES MUSIC As we grow, we have to do a better job of treating the waste. CHARLES MUSIC There is a great similarity in some folk music in Assam and those in some parts of China. We have ro... MANJU BORA If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if fo... LANGHORNE SLIM Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is! MICHELLE SHOCKED If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydrea... ALBERT EINSTEIN I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres. JESSIE J What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes ou... BONO If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydrea... ALBERT EINSTEIN Survey results found that people were listening to types of music they weren't interested in before.... MARK KOTKIN I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs. HOZIER Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music unde... DANIELLE DE NIESE The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending reall... TREY ANASTASIO All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song LOUIS ARMSTRONG We paint with a pretty broad brush when we talk about folk music. LARRY MEYER Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors. DONAL HENAHAN My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues MARK KNOPFLER The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started... GEORGE GROVE Everywhere, there was Ukrainian Gypsy and folk music. That's just how it is there; you cannot escape... EUGENE HUTZ When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs. RAY LAMONTAGNE I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself. MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLIN I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, cal... BEN HARPER Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own... ARLO GUTHRIE Art has often been and continues to be considered transcendent. I see this as misguided and, in fact... AMAN MOJADIDI We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun... DANIEL JOHNS It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you m... CHöGYAM TRUNGPA Folk music is a bunch of fat people. BOB DYLAN I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy. FRED DURST Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world a... IAIN MCGILCHRIST I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music. KATEY SAGAL All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. LOUIS ARMSTRONG That's folk music, swing, country blues, old time country, jazz. It's the roots of American music. DOMINIC SUCHYTA Don was a pretty good singer - he came from West Virginia where they sang a lot of country folk musi... MAGGIE PETERSON Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. PAUL WHITEMAN I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul ... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackma... JEAN COCTEAU Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackma... JEAN COCTEAU People have to be educated to realize they're going to have to pay for music; otherwise there won't ... JAY COOPER Jazz is the folk music of the machine age PAUL WHITEMAN I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fidd... RENEE FLEMING Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country... CHARLIE DANIELS Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternativ... BRAD DELSON Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called ... JAMIE MUIR I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow. BOB DYLAN Clarinet is often associated with certain genres, like swing or folk music. I combine the old and ne... ANAT COHEN Music is the shorthand of emotion. LEO TOLSTOY Music is the shorthand of emotion. LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Music is the shorthand of emotion LEO TOLSTOY I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. ... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion tha... YAEL NAIM Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion. ICE CUBE The Quakers don't believe in music or art; they think it's a vanity. JAMES TURRELL You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music. JOHN LYDON No matter what kind of music you're into, you need rhythm. And it's good to expose people to as much... ERIC GINSBERG In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art ... BRIAN ENO Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music. DEREK BAILEY In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I ... TOMMY RAMONE Music should be judged on what you hear, not what you think you might hear. CARLENE CARTER At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that ... BRIAN ENO Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just enter... RASHEED OGUNLARU traditional folk music and dance in India ,specially women oriented . every folk music has a homely ... LITYMUNSHI We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted. AHMED BEST I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music. ANDY SUMMERS I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music. DOLLY PARTON The idea to go for folk fusion is simple as folk music is accepted throughout the world because peop... DIPAK SARMA Great music is like a query language for a database of emotions. OCTAV DRUTA This machine kills fascists. WOODY GUTHRIE Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'lik... NEIL STRAUSS It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind ... EARL SWEATSHIRT Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose u... WILL SHETTERLY I don't care what people say. My music's, my music. ENRIQUE IGLESIAS I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photogra... JAMES GRAY I was taught that you can't be a healthy individual without art, music, or nature in your life. ... MICHAEL HORSE I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, th... LANDON LIBOIRON I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with. 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