Doc Watson Quotes

We have had to play some mighty tough audiences.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.