Career Quote by Keith Whitley

I got into bluegrass music when I was 14, as a way to get into a band. My brother and I had a band…

— Keith Whitley

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

— Ashley McBryde

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

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

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 went on tour with Ricky Skaggs and his wife, Sharon White, and the White Family in 2015. It was fantastic. They're all the…

— Ry Cooder

I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam.

— Sturgill Simpson

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

When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon,…

— Willie Nelson

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock…

— Randy Bachman

I actually grew up singing bluegrass gospel.

— Carly Pearce

I started out in the folk music world only because of the way my songs were written and performed, with just an acoustic guitar,…

— John Prine