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John Fahey

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

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

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

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"I think they do a great job on Queer as 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."

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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."

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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."

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

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

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