Bluegrass Music Quotes

I was four days old when I went to my first bluegrass festival.

When I think about country music, I think about America.

I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers.

I started at such a young age learning every style of music, the country and the bluegrass and the western swing and the rock - everything.

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.

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

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

My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's a bluegrass musician. It's always been a part of the family.

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

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of classic folk songs is one of his best.

Shortly after I started in bluegrass, Ricky Skaggs and I got together and the bluegrass career just snowballed. Being 15 or 16 and making good money playing music was pretty attractive.

And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy.

I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music and country records, along with anything else that I might want to do.

I grew up going to bluegrass festivals, and there were performers who got on stage and didn't say much. They would stand there, stone-faced, picking. I could appreciate that, but it taught me that a little showmanship and some personality adds so much to a performance.

There are a whole lot of Carter Family songs.

Bill Monroe is not singing about life in America. He's singing about life in Kentucky and Tennessee. And yet it's had this tremendous impact, not just in America but in the world. Why is Bill Monroe's hyper-regional music so universal? We can be so different and yet still share a tremendous amount.

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.

When I was 12 years old I discovered Bill Monroe and my dad got me a mandolin.

By the age of 15, I knew over 40 Hank Williams songs.

I love Don Williams records. And old Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe.

On 'Justified', we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky.

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

I didn't actually start playing the banjo until I was in high school.

I went out on the road when I was 12 years old, playing with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers. That was the summer of 1972. We played Pentecostal churches, camp meetings, George Wallace campaign rallies and bluegrass festivals. As a kid, I had grown up watching quartets that were very entertaining.