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I've always liked the stuff that kicks.

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When the doctors showed me an X-ray of my brain, they pointed to a black hole on the upper left side and told me that all memory from that spot was dead. I thought to myself that I hoped that's where I kept 'The Orange Blossom Special.'

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My dad was a telegraph operator for the Cotton Belt Railroad. He worked seven nights a week from 4 until midnight, no vacation.

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I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

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The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.

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I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

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When I was 15, I was working for a radio band in Shreveport. Cliff Bruner, the hottest Texas fiddler of them all, was on the same package shows, playing for Jimmie Davis.

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I had a stroke in December of '99, and it affected my left side - my fingering side.

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I tell my audiences today that I served 10 years in Nashville! That's a joke, of course; I was grateful for the work. Bob Ferguson, who produced Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, started calling me in.

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When I get asked for advice for a young person starting in the music business, I tell them, 'Play every chance you get, and be real lucky.'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: May 30th, 1926

Died: May 9th, 2015

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