Earl Scruggs is the guy who really made that leap with using three fingers in a rotating fashion to create this fast rippling sound that had never been heard before.

You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.

If you don't let things develop, it's like keeping something in a bag and not letting it out to fly

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina.

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

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

He [Earl Scruggs] was really cool because he was very quiet, and he wouldn't say much, but then he would come out with a quip that was like so perfect and so brilliant, very smart.

It's made a lot of people richer from hearing Earl Scruggs. And I just think we're all very lucky to have him in the world.

Your life must not be different from your dreams. You must live a dream

Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong.

Everyone in New York City thinks they are famous without being famous.

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.

Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read!

Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.