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…

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

— 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…

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

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There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I…

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I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one…

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I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own…

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I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

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I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we…

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I was a big fan of a writer named Jack Vance, a science fiction writer. He always wrote about these guys who…

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I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa…

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