South African - Musician | March 14, 1983 -
The pop industry is so well-practised at channelling young people's creative energy that I think it gets abused.
Johnny Flynn
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I'm not that politically educated.
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The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities.
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When I first moved to London, there was talk of a folk revival, with annoying names like nu-folk that made me feel slightly ill.
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All the adults in my family were actors, so there wasn't much else in terms of role models. I fell in love with that world, being backstage at the theatre.
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It's interesting to marry American musical traditions with the subtlety of English-style storytelling and folk singer-songwriters like Martin Carthy and Bert Jansch - they're two heritages that are distinct but also cross over on so many levels.
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Taking someone else's language and fitting it into your own speech - you learn a lot about other people's brains, doing that.
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I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel.
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Loads of verses don't make it into the finished song.
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Our job as actors is to invent the things that bridge ourselves with the characters, so you have to build something if it's not there - you try and learn what makes people behave in a certain way.
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I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.
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Diane Cluck is part of the anti-folk movement in New York. She's got a really haunting voice, and she usually sings in the pentatonic scale.
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