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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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"Being worshipped is a horrible experience."
Experience
"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."
Life
"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
"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
"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."
Music
"The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious."
Unconscious
"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
"From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes."
Friendship
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