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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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"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."
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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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"Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band."
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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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"I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk."
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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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"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."
Cause
"Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four."
Life
"Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't."
Music
"No, because I was always nervous about being onstage."
Being
"I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing."
Music
"You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause."
People
"Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music."
Music
"Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic."
Thought
"It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black."
First
"I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves."
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