I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time…

I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically.

— Ralph Stanley

“Ingeborg lifted her face to the sun, eyes closed, listening to the sounds of the lake—wavelets lapping the shore, birds singing and two jays…

— Lauraine Snelling

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

— Loretta Lynn

“Well Dennis you don't have to hear any of the mountain music they play here. Telling the young lies so that they can learn…

— Jack Spicer

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and…

— Ethan Coen

I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was…

— Pete Seeger

I don't want to always be doing the same old thing.

— Joseph Plaskett

I don't want to play old music. To me, it is fighting battles that are already over and calling yourself a warrior. For me,…

— Henry Rollins

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

— Peter Drucker

Everyone is trying to say, 'This is Gen Y; we're not an old company. We're not doing old content.'

— Shane Smith

Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do

— French Proverb

Sometimes I don't fully accept it. It's tough. I miss doing old things. I miss shooting hoops with my friends.

— Jeff Bauman

I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years.

— Steve Forbert

It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come…

— Yasunari Kawabata

I've been doing old-people things since I was a child.

— Martha Plimpton