Carolina Quotes
I’ve written so few songs, I don’t know how, it’s very hard. I’ve done arranging, but lyrics don’t rhyme without changing the context of what I’m trying to say in the song. I just never felt that I was a writer
Doc Watson Carolinian
Source
Interview with Ben Williamson after the Flat Rock Music Festival, "Legend Language: The Life and Words of Doc Watson," Relix, October 25, 2001
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“I’ve written so few songs, I don’t know how, it’s very hard.…” Doc Watson. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-FB828FA737. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/fb828fa737
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One was the music and entertaining people. The other was that I needed to earn a living for my family and I was tired of sitting around and being a burden on the state, taking charity. Any man that's worth his salt will want to work for a living. I think it's an honorable thing to want to do that. One reporter said, 'Oh, so it was the money, that's why you did this, huh?' Well, that made me mad. I never wanted to get rich and I never did anyhow.
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.
That travelling is hard, though. I love the audience and the music, but I’d rather be home than anywhere in the world