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.

Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.

Practice every time you get a chance

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.

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

Country music belongs to America.

I just wanted a style of music all my own.

Practice every time you get a chance.

Regret isn't real. It's something invented to punish ourselves

Preparation is the key to leadership success. The more prepared you are the less your struggle to make it happen and the more your effectiveness!

It is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults.

Every surgeon carries about him a little cemetery in which from time to time he goes to pray a cemetery of bitterness and regret of which he seeks the reason for certain of his failures.

It were a blessed sight to see That child become a willow tree, His brother trees among. He'd be four times as tall as me, And live three times as long.

Your denomination is not defined by a style. So don’t let style become a point of contention.

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

A decent cowboy does not take what belongs to someone else and if he does he deserves to be strung up and left for the flies and coyotes

There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.