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

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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

Folk, Nothing, Passion

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

Big Bill Broonzy, American Composer

Folk, Songs

"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

Folk, Pleasure, Shadow

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

Daisy Berkowitz, American Musician

Folk, Youth

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

Carly Simon, American Musician

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

Ann Wilson, American Musician

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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

Folk, Guitar, Songs

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

John Fahey, American Musician

Folk, Teachers, Trying

"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

Folk, Old

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

Robert Wyatt, English Musician

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

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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."

Being

"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

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

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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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"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes."

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

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

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

"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."