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

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

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.

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.

The people who pray together build together a better world

The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity.

Confound the subtlety of lawyers with the subtlety of the law.

You cannot give what you don't have

I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.

I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly.

My rule is, if it's not moving-monogram it!

I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.

If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead.

Teacher who make Physics boring are criminals