Doc Watson famous quotes

04-23-2025

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people
-- Doc Watson

#Thinking #Guitar #Play
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.
-- Doc Watson

#People #Fit #Like You
You have to be yourself otherwise people won't know who you are,
-- Doc Watson

#Being Yourself #People #Wise People
Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'
-- Doc Watson

#College #People #Plus
I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?
-- Doc Watson

#And Love #Quitting #Music Love
Practice like the Devil.
-- Doc Watson

#Guitar #Practice #Devil
I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home
-- Doc Watson

#Running #Dog #Hate
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
-- Doc Watson

#First Love #Guitar #Firsts
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
-- Doc Watson

#Being Yourself #Trying #Ems
The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much
-- Doc Watson

#Matter #Too Much #Size
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.
-- Doc Watson

#People #Pedestal #Want

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