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

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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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"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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"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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"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."

Jane Grey, British Royalty

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

Ann Wilson, American Musician

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"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."

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"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

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

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"As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you."

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

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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."

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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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"Being worshipped is a horrible experience."

"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."

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

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

"As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you."

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

"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."