Bluegrass Quotes

I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence. (Mike Gordon)
I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues. View quote
Otis Rush
It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians. View quote
Dan Fogelberg
I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz. View quote
Bela Fleck
That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best. View quote
Dierks Bentley
If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical. View quote
Eric Close
Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests. View quote
Jeffrey Wright
Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that. View quote
John Fahey
Bluegrass is really a big part of my background. View quote
Travis Tritt
After Charlie [Charlie Monroe, Bill's brother] and me broke up, I was searching for a name for my group. And I wanted a name from the state of Kentucky. Before I come to WSM in Nashville - I started on WWNC, Asheville - why, I'd already decided on using the name "bluegrass," because that's what they'd call Kentucky, the Blue Grass State. So I just used "Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys," and that let people throughout the country know I was from Kentucky, saved a lot of people from having to ask me where I was from. Governor Ford, he claims I've done more than any one man for Kentucky - every time I use the word "bluegrass" it leads back to the state. View quote
Bill Monroe
Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year. (Bill Monroe)
Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it. View quote
Bill Monroe
It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson. View quote
Dan Fogelberg
I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it. View quote
Eugene Chadbourne
I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album. View quote
Alan Jackson
The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day. View quote
Alison Krauss
You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else. View quote
Alison Krauss
My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians. View quote
Brandi Carlile
I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar. View quote
Dan Auerbach
I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make. View quote
Dierks Bentley
I like big shows, a lot of volume and a lot of energy. I love electric instruments. But I do love mixing those with bluegrass instruments and cranking those up, too, with a little bit of that rock energy. (Dierks Bentley)
I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that. View quote
Little Milton
What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues, to classical and big band and then go to pop and rap. View quote
Casey James
When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way. View quote
Ricky Skaggs
I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him. View quote
Ricky Skaggs