Bluegrass Quote by Chris Thile

Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.

— John Fahey

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians

— Dan Fogelberg

It's true that bluegrass is a virtuosic form and asks that of its performer. Old-time music is older rawer and purer. It's less stylized.…

— Ketch Secor

Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances…

— Bill Monroe

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the…

— Alison Krauss

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

— Travis Tritt

People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

— Dolly Parton

Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.

— Emmylou Harris

I was introduced to classical music by my grandparents - my parents were mostly into folk and jazz. Even as a young man, I…

— Chris Thile

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.…

— Clare Bowen

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

— Ricky Skaggs

In order to understand the history of the banjo, and the history of bluegrass music, we need to move beyond the narrative we've inherited,…

— Rhiannon Giddens