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To me, the essence of the music is the most important thing.

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People have all sorts of expectations which you can't meet. Me, I'm so reclusive I stay away from such things as much as I can. I never go anywhere.

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I always have felt that most people don't have the first idea about what musicians, in the traditional sense - I don't mean in the modern media fake way, but traditionally - what they went through, what their lives were like.

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I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head.

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When the real world intrudes on your musical fantasies, I get put out.

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I'm sort of an osmotic fellow.

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The Delmore Brothers is hit music - very, very popular - and it still retains that rural flavor and simplicity. I always think of it as family music, really, because families sang it.

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Travelling is hard. I'm no traveller. I hate flying, and I hate hotels.

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Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.

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The thing I always found about the gospel music was that it reached further into your being if you like, your mind. It takes hold of you - especially if you sing it and play it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: March 15th, 1947

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