Band Quote by Keith Whitley

The first music I was interested in was Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys, and I listened to bluegrass religiously on the radio while…

— Porter Wagoner

I grew up playing bluegrass as a youngster, and I'm happy that I did.

— Ashley McBryde

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

— John Fahey

There was a band in San Diego, Bluegrass Etc, that played a weekly gig. My parents would take my brother and me every Saturday…

— Sara Watkins

Shortly after I started in bluegrass, Ricky Skaggs and I got together and the bluegrass career just snowballed. Being 15 or 16 and making…

— Keith Whitley

I started at such a young age learning every style of music, the country and the bluegrass and the western swing and the rock…

— John 5

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

When you're a kid, you listen to what your family is listening to. For my family, it was bluegrass.

— Sara Watkins

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

I actually grew up singing bluegrass gospel.

— Carly Pearce

I was four days old when I went to my first bluegrass festival.

— Ashley McBryde

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