Bluegrass Quote by Emmylou Harris Download Open image “Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.” — Emmylou Harris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bluegrass Disappears Musical Once Start Strict Very You
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 Copy Share Image
When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way. — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that. — John Fahey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the 70s that if you want to play newgrass you have… — Sam Bush Copy Share Image
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
I'm just too busy living every day to really spend a lot of time thinking 'am I old?' I'm this age. I am in… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Yes, I always say that we're a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share
I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part -… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
You really do learn every day with every dog; they are all so unique and different. But if you're patient and you understand where… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
I'm nowhere with country music. I don't hear much of it, so I shouldn't venture an opinion, but when it finds me, it seems… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place. — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I'm influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, and then by bluegrass. But when I was 16, bluegrass wasn't… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I like big shows, a lot of volume and a lot of energy. I love electric instruments. But I do love mixing those with… — Dierks Bentley Copy Share Image
I think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's not part… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way. — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
In bluegrass, there's a lot of joke-telling and a lot of banter between bandmates. It's like improv or watching the 'Carol Burnett Show.' — Ashley McBryde Copy Share Image
I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals. — David B. Coe Copy Share Image