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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a stroke in December of '99, and it affected my left side - my fingering side.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Kicks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked the stuff that kicks.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never very good at picking cotton, and then I only made fifty cents or $1 a day. People would work for $1 a day during the Depression. So we would get $2 for playing music and just having fun. I think that as a result of that it was not just the money, but we enjoyed doing it.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Texas was home. We went to Anchorage to get rich in 1959. Someone told us, 'If you drive a nail, you could make $100 a day in construction work.' We were hungry, and we stayed there for a year and a half. But I never did plan to stay there - the same with Nashville. I was gonna go up there and work, but Texas was home.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up listening to the Light Crust Doughboys on WBAP.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
To join Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys was like throwing a baseball around in your front yard and somebody coming over and signing you to play for the New York Yankees.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still play the fiddle every day. I'm afraid if I don't, it won't know who I am.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I asked the man on the phone from the National Endowment for the Arts what this fellowship entailed, and he said, 'Well, first there's $10,000.' I asked him, 'Can I pay it in installments?'
- Fiddler
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't really an old-time breakdown fiddler.
- Big Band
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'd hear something that sounded like I could follow it - most of those big band jazz tunes are blues anyway - I would hum it and play with the fiddle while I was humming.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020