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I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people
Doc Watson
2.
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
3.
You have to be yourself otherwise people won't know who you are.
Doc Watson
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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.
Doc Watson
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
Doc Watson
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I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home
Doc Watson
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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
Doc Watson
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The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much
Doc Watson
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Practice like the Devil.
Doc Watson
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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
11.
Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'
Doc Watson