I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?
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I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?
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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.
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We have had to play some mighty tough audiences.
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I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.
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Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'
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When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.
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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.
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My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar.
