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John Fahey

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

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

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

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John Fahey
"The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious."

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John Fahey
"Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side."

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

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John Fahey
"Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that."

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

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John Fahey
"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."

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John Fahey
"As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself."

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John Fahey
"I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing."

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

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