Tommy Ramone Quotes

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

I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.

Mostly I listen to old-time music, some bluegrass, some Americana stuff, too many to name. But of the younger acts, there are The Freight Hoppers, who were big in the '90s, and The Foghorn Stringband from Oregon, and there's a lot of young string bands coming up now, basically punkers who play acoustic instruments forming new bands.

I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that.

Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'

We came out of bluegrass, so we could play.

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

Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.

This is the bunch of songs I did first, and it's just the type of thing I do. I am a Carter Family girl, so the record is book-ended with Carter Family songs.

I was reared on folk music.

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta.

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.

I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.

I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

I really get that some people like the roots-rock, storytelling thing that I was doing, and I'm proud of that.

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.

I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now.