"I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk."

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"I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk."

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"I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk."

Laura Innes, American Actress

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"I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em."

Big Bill Broonzy, American Composer

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"I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer."

Robert Wyatt, English Musician

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"Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it."

Steve Forbert, American Musician

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"Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them."

Brownie McGhee, American Musician

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"It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself."

Tom Chapin, American Musician

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"How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know."

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"Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band."

Ann Wilson, American Musician

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"It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs."

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"Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them."

"It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself."

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