"The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't……" — Alison Krauss
"The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day"
More Bluegrass Quotes
- You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn… — Ernest Gaines
- Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music,… — Paul Zollo
- The music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the 70s that if you want to… — Sam Bush
- I'm just trying to unite the western crowd and the bluegrass crowd a little more. ... I get to do… — Michael Martin Murphey
- Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it. — Bill Monroe
- Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s… — Greil Marcus
- I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold.… — Otis Rush
- Bluegrass is really a big part of my background. — Travis Tritt
- I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and… — Bela Fleck
- Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself. — John Hartford
- It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians — Dan Fogelberg
- I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the… — Bill Monroe