Doc Watson Quotes (8 Quotes)

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

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

The bottom line is a man's got to have a vocation of some kind. But performing in concert has its own rewards, though I have to admit that up until a few years ago I was very nervous being up there. I finally learned to be who I am and relax. When you do that, it's just like being down there with the audience.

We have had to play some mighty tough audiences.

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.

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

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.