Bluegrass Quote by Ralph Stanley

I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and…

— B. B. King

My folks were country music performers. They made records and even did a few tours with the Grand Ole Opry. There always were a…

— Lenny Breau

Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time.

— Gene Chandler

Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974.

— Dianne Reeves

I grew up in Arizona listening to Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, and Dolly Parton.

— Meghan McCain

I used to DJ in Atlanta, and that's how I kind of got into the music industry.

— Lil Jon

I went to high school right outside Dallas, and (songwriter and performer) Michael Martin Murphey was a senior there when I was a sophomore…

— Ray Wylie Hubbard

My dad was a club musician. He was always playing guitar and playing loads of soul records and '60s rock n' roll. Whenever he…

— Sam Fender

My dad was a teacher. He has a Masters in music. He taught elementary school, and he played gigs his whole life, and we…

— Dawn Richard

I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had…

— Koko Taylor

I belonged to the Columbia Record Club, and that's where my records came from. For some reason, I was in the 'jazz' category. I…

— Leon Russell

Steve Earle had a mainstream career. Dwight Yoakam had a mainstream career. Willie Nelson did. But they always made good music, they always stuck…

— Aubrie Sellers