Folk music
Folk music is a word I can’t use. Folk music is a bunch of fat people. I have to think of all this as traditional music. Traditional music is based on hexagrams. iIt comes about from legends, Bibles, plagues, and it revolves around vegetables and death…. All these songs about roses growing out of people’s brains and lovers who are really geese and swans that turn into angels….I mean, you’d think that the traditional-music people could gather from their songs that mystery is a fact, a traditional fact….In that music is the only true, valid death you can feel today off a record player.
—Bob Dylan, 1966
