Doc Watson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people”
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“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.”
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“You have to be yourself otherwise people won't know who you are,”
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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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“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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“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 can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen”
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“The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much”
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“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 a pedestal when I leave here. I'm just one of the people ... just me.”
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