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"I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried."
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"I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it."


"I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books."


"I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill."


"When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please."


"Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either."


"After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect."


"The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are."


"I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody."


"The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that."
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