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

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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."

Jane Grey, British Royalty

Folk, Pleasure, Shadow

"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

Folk, Guitar

"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

Folk, Fun, Guitar, Play

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

Big Bill Broonzy, American Composer

Folk, Songs

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

Daisy Berkowitz, American Musician

Folk, Youth

"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

Folk, Guitar, Jazz, Light

"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

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

Steve Forbert, American Musician

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

Laura Innes, American Actress

Folk, Job

"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

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"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."

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

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"I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real."

Audience, Audiences, Pretty

"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, Challenge, Pretty, Song

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

People, Old, Years

"I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun."

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"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."

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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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

Explore more quotes by Steve Forbert

"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."

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

"I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun."

"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."