Top 14 Doc Watson Quotes

#1. We have had to play some mighty tough audiences.

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#2. You have to be yourself otherwise people won't know who you are,

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#3. I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.

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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. 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 of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar.

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

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#8. The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much.

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

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#10. Practice like the Devil.

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

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#12. 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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#13. When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.

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#14. 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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