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Banjos Quote by Doc Watson

“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, to me that was my first love in music” quote by Doc Watson — Download Open image

“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, to me that was my first love in music”

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When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles…

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Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'

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I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

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I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home

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Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me.

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When I was very young my mother sang to me at bedtime and my dad would often play the banjo or fiddle in the evening. I knew music was important and central to everything, most particularly it had a powerful healing value and created a sense of peace and security. This stood out to me as I always felt the…

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

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Earl Scruggs had this thing that it wasn't just the technique or even the instrument. It was him. There was this soulful quality that came through that made you - if you're somebody like me who was, I guess, supposed to play the banjo, it made you stop in your tracks, and you couldn't do anything until you got done…

There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and music gathering those are the instruments they use. It's acoustic music. We don't do that much modern country that has electric guitars and a lot of volume. It's a gentler form of music. It's from the land and…

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Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo.

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A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

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I mean if it wasn't for Earl Scruggs, guys like me wouldn't be doing what we're doing. I mean, he's changed so many people's lives, honestly. I was thinking about all the thousands of people that live in Nashville, like myself, that there's no reason a guy from New York would end up down there if it wasn't for the…

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