I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I certainly love the bluegrass ensemble, I think it's a powerful tool, but I don't think it's more than a tool. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself. — John Hartford Copy Share Image
I guarantee you there's a bunch of the twentysomethings that don't know that, don't know I play banjo and bluegrass. — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
The music scene in Michigan is really folky and bluegrass, but my parents played a lot of disco. They really liked to… — Borns Copy Share Image
I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I grew up playing bluegrass as a youngster, and I'm happy that I did. — Ashley McBryde Copy Share Image
You may not hear much bluegrass on the surface of my music, but I feel the emotion I put in a song… — Keith Whitley Copy Share Image
Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
A lot of great bluegrass comes out of Kentucky. There's a lot of great music, like the Judds, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ricky… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
I went on tour with Ricky Skaggs and his wife, Sharon White, and the White Family in 2015. It was fantastic. They're… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
I got into bluegrass music when I was 14, as a way to get into a band. My brother and I had… — Keith Whitley Copy Share Image
I just hope bluegrass entertainers take care of their music and take care of their fans. If you don't practice, the man… — Bill Monroe Copy Share Image
My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians. — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
In order to understand the history of the banjo, and the history of bluegrass music, we need to move beyond the narrative… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country world that… — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not… — Alison Krauss Copy Share Image
Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an… — Edgar Meyer Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to unite the western crowd and the bluegrass crowd a little more. ... I get to do that again… — Michael Martin Murphey Copy Share Image
I was always drawn to the roots music, bluegrass, blues, early rock - Sun Records, Elvis [Presley]. And I still love that… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
What makes one type of music classical and one bluegrass and one folk - these things aren't what's important. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals. — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that. — John Fahey Copy Share Image
When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way. — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that. — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
No I don't play bluegrass harmonica or anything like that. I don't listen to country or bluegrass records. — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's… — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
It was around that time, early 60s. There were like three kindred spirits in New Jersey. I had two friends who played… — David Grisman Copy Share Image
Improvisation is an important part of bluegrass, and I would hasten to add that classical music wasn't always such an improvisational void.… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Speaking of WAMU, [bluegrass and old time music DJ] Ray Davis did a lot of work there. I've know Ray, I guess… — Ralph Stanley Copy Share Image
My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record...I'm more impressed… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
It's true that bluegrass is a virtuosic form and asks that of its performer. Old-time music is older rawer and purer. It's… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
Shortly after I started in bluegrass, Ricky Skaggs and I got together and the bluegrass career just snowballed. Being 15 or 16… — Keith Whitley Copy Share Image
If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal… — Eric Close Copy Share Image
Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
![“I was always drawn to the roots music, bluegrass, blues, early rock - Sun Records, Elvis [Presley]. And I still love that music to this day. Memphis never gets the credit. It's much more musically rich than Nashville ever will be. Nashville manufactured that hokey-hillbilly image way back.” quote by Steve Young](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ad8/steve-young-2710_bluegrass_i-was-always-drawn-to-the-roots-music-bl_1880523.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Ralph Stanley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b10/ralph-stanley-21787_bluegrass_speaking-of-wamu-bluegrass-and-old-time_1594979.jpg)
