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"Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it."
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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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"I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk."
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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 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'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer."
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"I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em."
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"How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know."
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"The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s."
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"I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again."
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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
Musicians
"Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat."
Time
"I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever."
Dream
"When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some."
End
"When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long."
People
"Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me."
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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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"I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed."
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"From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto."
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