Doc Watson Quotes

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

  Doc Watson

  Thinking, Guitar, Play

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• You have to be yourself otherwise people won't know who you are.

  Doc Watson

  Being Yourself, People, Knows

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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.

  Doc Watson

  People, Fit, Like You

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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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  People, Pedestal, Want

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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

  Doc Watson

  First Love, Guitar, Firsts

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• Practice like the Devil.

  Doc Watson

  Guitar, Practice, Devil

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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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  Being Yourself, Trying, Ems

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

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  Running, Dog, Hate

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• The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much

  Doc Watson

  Matter, Too Much, Size

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• 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

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• 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

  "Doc Watson, Folk Guitar Icon, Dies at 89", www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 29, 2012.

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