Croce: "Do you believe the Festival marked a comeback in your own career?" Hurt: "I certainly don't think it hurt," he answered laughing. "Of course my career has seen more comebacks than a Friday night fish fry. I've been around a long time, you know. My first record was for Okeh in 1928" - December 1963, young Villanova student Jim Croce asks a question about the recent Newport Folk Festival in an interview of Mississippi John Hurt for radio station WWVU, from I Got A Name - the Jim Croce Story by Ingrid Croce and Jimmy Rock (Da Capo 2012)
I don't know if I'm qualified to start a quote drive but I love quotes so I just start one. "Buster B. Jones is the best fingerpicker I've heard since Jerry Reed? He plays like he's double parked."Chet Atkins
"Plow the mule in the daytime, pick the guitar at night" -bud spires "RL, did you shoot him in self defense?" "No, I shot him in the leg and he jumped the fence" -RL Burnside
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Charlie is the Father, Son is the Son, Willie is the Holy Ghost
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left - Oscar Levant, as quoted in On the 8th Day ? God Laughed (1995) by Gene Perret, p. 95