Doc Watson Quotations

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.

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

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

Practice like the Devil.

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

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

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

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

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

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.