Bluegrass Quotes

Bluegrass Quote of the day

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians

I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.

When you're a kid, you listen to what your family is listening to. For my family, it was bluegrass.

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day

I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the name "bluegrass." There is not a prettier name in the whole world.

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.

Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.

It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.

I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically.

I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that.

The bluegrass community... can be very strict. I didn't know if I'd be welcomed into the bluegrass community or not, but I think they judge you very fairly... I felt really welcome.

I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about it.

Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.

Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of this country. It was interesting to see the evolution of it.

I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.

I'm one of the people who believe the great lines come from either Western or bluegrass music.

Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole history of the banjo, I feel really good about it, including the Earl Scruggs part.

I just hope bluegrass entertainers take care of their music and take care of their fans. If you don't practice, the man next door who is practicing will beat you.

I wouldn't call myself a woman in bluegrass. I haven't really been a part of the world for a while. It's just been a big influence on who I am today.

I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.

If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical.

Speaking of WAMU, [bluegrass and old time music DJ] Ray Davis did a lot of work there. I've know Ray, I guess for 50 years - 40, or 50 years. And, he plays a lot of my records.

People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music and country records, along with anything else that I might want to do.

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests.