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

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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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"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."

Moliere, French Playwright

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"I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk."

Nathan Lane, American Actor

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"The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s."

Carly Simon, 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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"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."

Barry McGuire, American Musician

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"My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz."

Dan Hicks, American Musician

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

John Fahey, American Musician

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"We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise."

Daisy Berkowitz, American Musician

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

Robert Wyatt, English Musician

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"I just want to be treated like an average guy."

Want

"See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot."

Music

"But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me."

Being

"Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar."

Love

"So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why."

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"When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions."

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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."

"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."

"I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk."

"The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s."

"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."

"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."

"My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz."

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

"We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise."

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

Explore more quotes by John Fahey

"I just want to be treated like an average guy."

"See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot."

"Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money."

"Being worshipped is a horrible experience."

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

"From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes."

"But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me."

"Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar."

"So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why."

"When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions."