Carolina Quotes
But dad showed me a few of the old-time frailing or clawhammer banjo style tunes and one day he brought it to me and put it in my hands and said, son, I want you to learn to play this thing real well. And some of these days we'll get you a better one. He said it might help you get through the world.
Doc Watson Carolinian
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Interview with Terry Gross, Fresh Air, NPR, March 24, 1988; rebroadcast May 29, 2012
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I'd have played music of course, there's no doubt about that because I think you're born with music or whatever talent that comes out front in your blood, as the old-timers used to say, and you just couldn't help but pick the first time a guitar came along, you'd learn it. But it would've been a hobby.
Sometimes I'd make as much as $50, and I paid that guitar off in four or five months.
By that time, he was a budding musician. I mean, he was coming along, just about to blossom out good. And he said, ‘Dad, it hurt my feelings, but go ahead and do it. Our career is at a low ebb right now, and it’ll get us heard in audiences where we’ve never been heard before.’ And it sure did. He had a lot of good sense. You have to think ahead in your career, and I let my hurt feelings override that.