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I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

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I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961

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I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience

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The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American

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I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved

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If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful

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I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject

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