Mandolin Music Quotes

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.

We came out of bluegrass, so we could play.

Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll.

The fact that I'm a fifth of Punch Brothers... that's lucky for me because I feel like I get to operate in the context of one of the great string bands. There's just not another string band I would rather be in, and i'm just compelled to make music for and with string bands. It's what I know, and it's kind of like who I am.

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

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

There's something cool about playing 'Tempted' and then picking up the mandolin and playing 'Dark as a Dungeon' and standing on the classics. It's nice to just let soul rule.

I really love how the andante from the "A minor Sonata" sounds on the mandolin.