Bluegrass Quotes

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

— Alan Jackson

We came out of bluegrass, so we could play.

— Martie Maguire

We're all big fans of bluegrass.

— Winston Marshall

Bluegrass is in my blood and in my ears.

— Charlie Haden

I actually grew up singing bluegrass gospel.

— Carly Pearce

I was four days old when I went to my first bluegrass festival.

— Ashley McBryde

Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.

— Bill Monroe

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

— Travis Tritt

Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.

— John Hartford

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

— Steve Martin

I certainly love the bluegrass ensemble, I think it's a powerful tool, but I don't think it's more than a tool.

— Chris Thile

I guarantee you there's a bunch of the twentysomethings that don't know that, don't know I play banjo and bluegrass.

— Hank Williams Jr

The music scene in Michigan is really folky and bluegrass, but my parents played a lot of disco. They really liked to…

— Borns

I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam.

— Sturgill Simpson

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians

— Dan Fogelberg

Coming from bluegrass background, I totally understand family harmonies.

— Marty Stuart

If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal…

— Eric Close

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests…

— Jeffrey Wright

Shortly after I started in bluegrass, Ricky Skaggs and I got together and the bluegrass career just snowballed. Being 15 or 16…

— Keith Whitley

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

I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the name "bluegrass."…

— Bill Monroe

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

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

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

I was always drawn to the roots music, bluegrass, blues, early rock - Sun Records, Elvis [Presley]. And I still love that…

— Steve Young

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

— Dan Auerbach

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not…

— Alison Krauss

Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country world that…

— Hunter Hayes

Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an…

— Edgar Meyer

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

As a teacher with over thirty years of experience, I've found that students are hungry for material that goes beyond simply learning…

— Tony Trischka

I loved all kinds of Bluegrass music. Sonya Isaacs was a big influence; she's a Bluegrass Gospel singer, but she's also done…

— Carly Pearce

“Speaking more generally about what attracted him to bluegrass banjo, he said it was 'just the sound of the instrument, and then…

— Blair Jackson

I really tried to push every genre that I could into this record. I wanted every song to have this feel, where…

— Cody Johnson

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

It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.

— Dan Fogelberg

We have to make a living and you can't do that playing bluegrass.

— Martie Maguire

I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that.

— Little Milton

The question is not how do we get diversity into bluegrass, but how do we get diversity back into bluegrass?

— Rhiannon Giddens

I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.

— Ricky Skaggs