Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself. — John Hartford Copy Share Image
It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson. — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
Coming from bluegrass background, I totally understand family harmonies. — Marty Stuart 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
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
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
I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
The music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the 70s that if you want to play newgrass… — Sam Bush Copy Share Image
The bluegrass community... can be very strict. I didn't know if I'd be welcomed into the bluegrass community or not, but I… — Steve Martin 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
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
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
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
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'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
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
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
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 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 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
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
Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears. — Emmylou Harris 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
Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that. — John Fahey 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![“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/quotes/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/quotes/img-quotes/b10/ralph-stanley-21787_bluegrass_speaking-of-wamu-bluegrass-and-old-time_1594979.jpg)
