- Making Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life used to be record, tour, record, tour. You can never say no as a freelance musician. I was on the road 200 days a year.
- Banjo
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was such hostility to the idea of a banjo being a black instrument. It was co-opted by this white supremacist notion that old-time music was the inheritance of white America.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play a replica of a banjo from the 1950s. It was the first commercial-style banjo in the United States so it's the first one that white people played.
- Ever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Othering people is something that humans have done for ever.
- Invisible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm discovering so much about how invisible, othered and dismissed the Islamic world is, in terms of the massive effects it had on European music and culture.
- Commercially
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is music out there that is commercially driven, whether you like it or not. That's a peculiarly American innovation. We innovated the commercial music business.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the commercial music world, the folk world, we sell records and concert tickets - this is the way I make a living. You go out, you make your art and hopefully people will put their money down for it. But it's getting hard. I have to be on the road so much to keep the lights on.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being on the road and I love my band, but also need to be with my kids more and I need to be creating more.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music affects people in a way that bare facts can't.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
White people are so fragile, God bless 'em. 'Well, I didn't own slaves.' No you didn't. Nobody is asking you to take personal responsibility for this. But you're a beneficiary of a system that did. Just own that and move on.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020