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"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing."
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"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."
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"What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason."
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"I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes."
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"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."
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"My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover."
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"I'll never forget my father's response when I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, 'If you do this, no man will ever want you.'"
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"You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!"
Success
"It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians."
People
"My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it."
Dance
"My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard."
Music
"I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies."
Tribute
"I always try to give my songs as gifts."
Gift
"My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way."
Father
"I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail."
Love
"Now is the only thing that exists."
Now
"Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more."
College
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