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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

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.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

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

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

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

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.

Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!