We weren't straight-A students. We didn't start playing until we were teenagers, and we started playing rock and … - Ketch Secor

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There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

Ketch Secor

We weren't straight-A students. We didn't start playing until we were teenagers, and we started playing rock and roll and punk rock - power chords - before we ever thought we would play folk music. So virtuosity was just never in my reach.

Chords, Rock, Rock And Roll, Rocks, Teenager, Virtuosity

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I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen into a deep ink well. That's the folk music tradition. Like Pete Seeger said, 'Everyone's a link in the chain. ' It's a strong chain, so rely on it. . . . I believe it takes all those great songs in the past to make your song even a little bit good.

Believe, Enjoy, Song, Songs, Strong, Tradition

I think it is good for people who are incarcerated or who are bound up one way or the other-people like Lily Kimball and all the prostitues of Memphis. This gal, she needs some wings, and a good song can make that happen.

Incarcerated, Lily, Needs, Song, Thinking, Writing

It’s bound to be one hell of a steel wheelin, railroadin good time…while the western country rolls by and the smoke rises blacker than musical notes pouring out of that stoked-up-and-chuggin iron chariot.

Country, Hell, Iron, Musical, Notes

Because music gets you high, so it makes sense to sing about what else gets you high.

Gets, High, Make Sense, Music, Sense, Sing

Like anybody else of my era, I listened to a whole lot of Michael Jackson. I guess I was probably inspired by the way he danced, and the way he sang, and his image.

Eras, Image, Inspired, Way, Whole

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