"Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or……" — Jeffrey Wright

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• You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn… — Ernest Gaines
• Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music,… — Paul Zollo
• The music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the 70s that if you want to… — Sam Bush
• I'm just trying to unite the western crowd and the bluegrass crowd a little more. ... I get to do… — Michael Martin Murphey
• The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough… — 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… — Greil Marcus
• I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold.… — 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… — 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

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