You have to be yourself otherwise people won't know who you are.

- Doc Watson

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 t…

- Doc Watson

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

- Doc Watson

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

- Doc Watson

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 fir…

- Doc Watson

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

- Doc Watson

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

- Doc Watson

And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. …

- Doc Watson

Practice like the Devil.

- Doc Watson