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
It's different now but I enjoy it more than I did then. I think I appreciate it more now and I love… — Chris Hillman Copy Share Image
When you're a kid, you listen to what your family is listening to. For my family, it was bluegrass. — Sara Watkins 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
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
Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears. — Emmylou Harris 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
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
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
Well, Peter Rowan and I had plans to form a band when he left Bill Monroe. I always thought it was going… — David Grisman 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 used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was… — Otis Rush Copy Share Image
There's lots of sides. The CD doesn't really create a mood. It creates more of a journey. It starts out with a… — Laura Bell Bundy 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
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
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 really tried to push every genre that I could into this record. I wanted every song to have this feel, where… — Cody Johnson 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
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 grew up playing bluegrass as a youngster, and I'm happy that I did. — Ashley McBryde 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
The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians — Dan Fogelberg 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
