Style is based on limitations.

I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

Sometimes when a new piece of knowledge comes along you suddenly change your priorities and focus on something completely different instead.

Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.

She dries her eyes and bakes her pies and leaves 'em on the window sill

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

Just when you think it can't get no better, then it does.

What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.

We are not the stuff that abides, but patternsthat perpetuate themselves.

Yes, you can make a difference! You can speak on behalf of those who are voiceless.

If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.

My only request is that I draw my last dollar and my last breath at the exact same moment.

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

God gives enabling grace to go on.

Nature Cure is so simple easy and cheap.....this system of treatment should be used.

But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.

I think all good art is outsider art.