"Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them."

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"Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them."

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"I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em."

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Dream

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Money

"From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto."

Time

"When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long."

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Years

"Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people."

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"Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat."

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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."

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"My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else."

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