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Folk Quotes

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

Carly Simon, American Musician

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

Robert Wyatt, English Musician

"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

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

Laura Innes, American Actress

"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

"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

"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

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

Ann Wilson, American Musician

"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

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

Steve Forbert, American Musician

"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

"How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know."

John Fahey, American Musician

"I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up."

Graham Coxon, German Musician

Folk, Guitar, Martin, Possession

"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

"I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk."

Nathan Lane, American Actor

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

John Fahey, American Musician

Folk, Teachers, Trying

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

Daisy Berkowitz, American Musician

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

Big Bill Broonzy, American Composer

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