Carolina Quotes
And I think they played for enjoyment, rather than for money, and that’s how they kept it alive.
Ola Belle Reed Carolinian
Source
Interviews recorded by Henry Glassie, 1966; from Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line (Dust-to-Digital), excerpted in Smoky Mountain Living, August 8, 2016
- form
- interview
- work
- Interviews with Henry Glassie
- year
- 1966
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“And I think they played for enjoyment, rather than for money…” Ola Belle Reed. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-9E27E4AA43. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/9e27e4aa43
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You don’t change that much. I could stay away from the mountains a lifetime, and I can still see, know, feel the things that I grew up with. And our way of life was embedded into you so strong that you just naturally knew it. You didn’t have to be told.
And I never forgot that, because I know people now that were born and raised where I was born and raised, that don’t know about their place.
And if I would be away a hundred years, I don’t think I’d ever forget a minute of it.