Adam Granduciel Quotes

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

Coming from bluegrass background, I totally understand family harmonies.

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

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.

Bluegrass is in my blood and in my ears.

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

I'm really taken with 'Calling Me Home' by Alice Gerrard.

I came late to the genre of folk music.

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

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

I'm no hillbilly singer.

People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

I love bluegrass music, I love acoustic music, and I try at the right times to push that a little bit.

We're all big fans of bluegrass.

I always play songs that are very based in folk music.

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

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

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

It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.

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

I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.

I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band.

My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my interest in that kind of music comes from him constantly listening to this stuff. He's taught me the history of it. It's remarkable how these young kids are now turned on to more traditional old-time music.

I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.