Bluegrass Quotes

42 Bluegrass quotes by 31 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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 a punk glee inside the… — Greil Marcus
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
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 bluegrass as well as funk… — 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 name "bluegrass." There is not… — Bill Monroe
I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place. — Ricky Skaggs
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
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
I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that. — Little Milton
When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way. — Ricky Skaggs
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
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
I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what… — Dan Auerbach
I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy… — Eugene Chadbourne
I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player.… — Mike Gordon
I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of this country. It… — Clare Bowen
That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best. — Dierks Bentley

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