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

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

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

Laura Innes, American Actress

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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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"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."

Ann Wilson, American Musician

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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."

Barry McGuire, American Musician

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

John Fahey, American Musician

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

Big Bill Broonzy, American Composer

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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's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?"

Life

"And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable."

Music

"I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years."

People

"I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs."

Play

"So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all."

Attention

"You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds."

Difference

"But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really."

People

"There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back."

Guitar

"I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about."

Acceptance

"I'm not trying to be the new anybody."

Trying