I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It…

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

— Dierks Bentley

I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very personal.

— Shook

In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim Croce and…

— Paul Stookey

I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing…

— Jane Siberry

I've always been fond of acoustic music.

— Ian Anderson

I went to high school right outside Dallas, and (songwriter and performer) Michael Martin Murphey was a senior there when I was a sophomore…

— Ray Wylie Hubbard

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

— Bill Bruford

When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred…

— Ian Anderson

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

— Graham Nash

There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and music gathering…

— Michael Martin Murphey

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock…

— Randy Bachman

I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's…

— Dan Auerbach

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as…

— Bela Fleck

I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up…

— Eugene Chadbourne

People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

— Dolly Parton