Bluegrass Quotes
42 quotes by 31 authors
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You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a…
— Ernest Gaines
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Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply into…
— Paul Zollo
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The music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the 70s that if you want to play newgrass you have to…
— Sam Bush
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I'm just trying to unite the western crowd and the bluegrass crowd a little more. ... I get to do that again on my new…
— Michael Martin Murphey
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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
— Alison Krauss
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Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.
— Bill Monroe
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Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk glee inside the…
— Greil Marcus
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I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station…
— Otis Rush
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Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.
— Travis Tritt
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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 well as funk…
— Bela Fleck
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Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.
— John Hartford
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It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians
— Dan Fogelberg
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I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the name "bluegrass." There is not…
— Bill Monroe
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I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.
— Ricky Skaggs
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You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most…
— Alison Krauss
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects…
— Randy Bachman
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I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that.
— Little Milton
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When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.
— Ricky Skaggs
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I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley…
— Ricky Skaggs
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Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative…
— Jeffrey Wright
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