"The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s."

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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

Folk, Guitar, Songs

"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

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

Laura Innes, American Actress

Folk, Job

"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

Folk, Old

"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

"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

Folk, Fun, Guitar, Play

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

John Fahey, American Musician

Folk, Teachers, Trying

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

Big Bill Broonzy, American Composer

Folk, Songs

"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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"I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody."

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"You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new."

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"We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure."

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"I think that most people really know if it's a really great album."

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"One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside."

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"I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth."

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"We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big."

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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."

"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."

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

"I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week."

"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."

"Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band."

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

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

"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 Carly Simon

"I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody."

"You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new."

"We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure."

"I think that most people really know if it's a really great album."

"One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside."

"I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth."

"We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big."

"No, because I was always nervous about being onstage."

"You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it."

"No, because I've never really changed my style that much."