"Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'"

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Source : "Doc Watson, Folk Guitar Icon, Dies at 89", www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 29, 2012.

Doc Watson

#College Quotes #People Quotes #Plus Quotes

“Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.”
“I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.”
“I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.”
“I'm mostly inspired by relationships and things that are going on in my everyday life. It's hard for me to write songs about things I don't experience firsthand, but most of the time it's about relationships - things that are going on in my head.”
“Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror”
“I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.”
“I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.”
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”

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