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"Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band."
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"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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"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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"I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer."
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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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"I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em."
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"We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise."
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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."
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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."
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"Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it."
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"The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious."
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"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."
Death

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

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

"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."
Country

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

"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

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

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