Believe Quote by Ralph Stanley

I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!

— Ralph Stanley

I live about six miles from where I was born and raised.

— Ralph Stanley

I think - I really think my voice has gotten better in the last two or three years. I don't know why. I've been…

— Ralph Stanley

My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it into lumber.…

— Ralph Stanley

You know, if you use instrument, why, you have to stay on perfect time - timing. And if you do a cappella - I'm…

— Ralph Stanley

I think Bob [Dylan] told me that he turned down twenty interviews that year, and I was the only one that he sat down…

— Ralph Stanley

I always enjoyed playing around Washington, because we always have a good crowd. I've never had a bad crowd in this vicinity from here…

— Ralph Stanley

My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And she had…

— Ralph Stanley

No pleasure here on earth I find For in this world I'm bound to ramble.

— Ralph Stanley

I believe in my music.

— Ralph Stanley

You give out the words and then sing them. You give out the words, you know, and the people can hear what you're giving…

— Ralph Stanley

I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically.

— Ralph Stanley