Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Doc Watson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Doc Watson.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson was an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues, and gospel music. Watson won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's fingerstyle and flatpicking skills, as well as his knowledge of traditional American music, were highly regarded. Blind from a young age, he performed publicly both in a dance band and solo, as well as for over 15 years with his son, guitarist Merle Watson, until Merle's death in 1985 in an accident on the family farm.

American - Musician | March 3, 1923 - May 29, 2012

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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

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

Doc Watson

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

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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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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We have had to play some mighty tough audiences.

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

Doc Watson

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

Doc Watson

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

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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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Practice like the Devil.

Doc Watson

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

Doc Watson

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

Doc Watson

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

Doc Watson

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

Doc Watson

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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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

Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Doc Watson

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