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Robert Wyatt

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

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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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"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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Donna Grant

"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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