Doc Watson Quotes

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• I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home
• The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much
• Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that…
• I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along,…
• I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people
• I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.
• Practice like the Devil.
• I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?
• Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'
• You have to be yourself otherwise people won't know who you are,
• And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on…
• We have had to play some mighty tough audiences.
• My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one…

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