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
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
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
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 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 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
I went on tour with Ricky Skaggs and his wife, Sharon White, and the White Family in 2015. It was fantastic. They're… — Ry Cooder 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
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 started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic… — Dan Auerbach 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
Being a part of the crowd with incredible musicians onstage summoning the muse and delivering that to us - doesn't matter if… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz,… — Wynton Marsalis 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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
You may not hear much bluegrass on the surface of my music, but I feel the emotion I put in a song… — Keith Whitley 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
I think what people call genre is just a question of orchestration. So, for instance, with Punch Brothers, you look at that… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I wouldn't call myself a woman in bluegrass. I haven't really been a part of the world for a while. It's just… — Sara Watkins 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 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
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
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
![“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/i/ad8/steve-young-2710_bluegrass_i-was-always-drawn-to-the-roots-music-bl_1880523.jpg)
