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

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Big Bill Broonzy, American Composer

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

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

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

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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 think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week."

Cynthia Payne, British Celebrity

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week."

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"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."

"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."

"I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head."

"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."