Happy True Quotes by Bela Fleck

So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

— Bela Fleck

Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

— Bela Fleck

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going…

— Bela Fleck

There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument.…

— Bela Fleck

There is a tendency to want to isolate a little bit, from people that might look at me from a fan position, because it's…

— Bela Fleck

Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole history of…

— Bela Fleck

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as…

— Bela Fleck

My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me…

— Bela Fleck

I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for…

— Bela Fleck

They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true.

— Bela Fleck

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

— Bela Fleck

I doubt anybody would have pushed me [on the music]. When I was at Sony nobody ever gave me any creative suggestions on the…

— Bela Fleck

It doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

— Bela Fleck

Sometimes you can fix something that went wrong with what you do next and make it better than it would have been if it…

— Bela Fleck

And then Earl Scruggs comes along and transforms the banjo into a virtuosic modern instrument. For the first time, the Southern banjo style becomes…

— Bela Fleck