I always loved country gospel from back when I was a teenager in high school and started listening to bluegrass quite a… — Ry Cooder 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
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 Copy Share Image
The question is not how do we get diversity into bluegrass, but how do we get diversity back into bluegrass? — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place. — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that. — John Fahey 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
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 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
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
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
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
There was a band in San Diego, Bluegrass Etc, that played a weekly gig. My parents would take my brother and me… — Sara Watkins Copy Share Image
I don't know that my voice ever makes sense anywhere, necessarily. I would sing bluegrass music, and I don't fit in there;… — Chris Stapleton 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
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 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
In order to understand the history of the banjo, and the history of bluegrass music, we need to move beyond the narrative… — Rhiannon Giddens 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
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 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
Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears. — Emmylou Harris 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
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
I grew up playing bluegrass as a youngster, and I'm happy that I did. — Ashley McBryde 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
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
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 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 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 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
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
I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
I started at such a young age learning every style of music, the country and the bluegrass and the western swing and… — John 5 Copy Share Image
A lot of great bluegrass comes out of Kentucky. There's a lot of great music, like the Judds, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ricky… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
