I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the name "bluegrass."… — Bill Monroe Copy Share Image
I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of… — Clare Bowen Copy Share Image
Growing up in a bluegrass or acoustic-oriented world, the musicians become so focused on performance, as far as playing. We tend to… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
All of the plants that we do not consider food that are safe for the human body to digest, we don't eat… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
In bluegrass, there's a lot of joke-telling and a lot of banter between bandmates. It's like improv or watching the 'Carol Burnett… — Ashley McBryde Copy Share Image
I've grown up in church and Gospel music was a big thing - and Bluegrass - but I just think of that… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional,… — Ralph Stanley Copy Share Image
I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and am a product of a family that were jazz aficionados and also very interested in… — Jack Waters Copy Share Image
I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of… — Eugene Chadbourne Copy Share Image
My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical… — Mike Gordon Copy Share Image
I don't try to approach things any differently, songwriting-wise, regardless of what I'm doing. I try to write whatever the best thing… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
I realized a lot of my friends were going to nightclubs and listening to house music. I was hanging out with them… — Hans-Peter Lindstrøm Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bluegrass that I wouldn't necessarily call… — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
I think, until I was 16, classical music had just seemed like a little bit of a rhythmic wasteland for me. Coming… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
I like big shows, a lot of volume and a lot of energy. I love electric instruments. But I do love mixing… — Dierks Bentley Copy Share Image
I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow… — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about… — Earl Scruggs Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that most people who listen to Alison Krauss and say they like bluegrass have never heard real bluegrass… — Mark O'Connor Copy Share Image
Black people created rock music, it's a fact. Black people created bluegrass and rock and roll way before Elvis Presley and The… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
I think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
The first music I was interested in was Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys, and I listened to bluegrass religiously on the… — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
I laid my country music aside for quite a while... because bluegrass audiences didn't care to hear it. But it just kept… — Keith Whitley Copy Share Image
I'm influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, and then by bluegrass. But when I was 16,… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit… — Dierks Bentley Copy Share Image
Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and… — Bill Monroe Copy Share Image
That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the… — Dierks Bentley Copy Share Image
I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues,… — Casey James Copy Share Image
The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then… — Randy Bachman 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
I got to sing with Placido Domingo... I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
“I was only going to shoot you if he was in one band. And only if it had a name like Uncle… — Ellen Wittlinger Copy Share Image
If you listen to all of my records, they all have a little part of me. So there's a part of me… — Sara Evans Copy Share Image
Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
