Africa Quote by Creed Bratton

I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music,…

— Jill Stein

It was around that time, early 60s. There were like three kindred spirits in New Jersey. I had two friends who played folk music,…

— David Grisman

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

— Angelina Jolie

When my father was, you know, a very big artist in the 1970s and then later up through the '80s. And then I began…

— John Carter Cash

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest…

— Paul Robeson

My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to…

— Anne Waldman

The whole trip that happened in the late 60s and 70s was kind of a throwback to a lot of folk styles. I got…

— Van Morrison

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

— Yannick Noah

My grandparents from the old country, Latvia, were all musical on my father's side.

— Joel Grey

We moved around a lot when I was kid. I'd lived in three continents before I was 12.

— Tana French

I started listening to old music that represented Mum and us living in west London when I was younger, and delved deep: SWV, Soul…

— Miquita Oliver

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

— Robert Plant