Bluegrass Quotes

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. — Eric Close

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background. — Travis Tritt

Soon the Boov was in the ghost suit and Pig was in the car, which would be a good lyric for a bluegrass song, now that I think of it. — Adam Rex

I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz. — Terry Teachout

I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about it. — Earl Scruggs

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best. — Dierks Bentley

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

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

I wouldn't call myself a woman in bluegrass. I haven't really been a part of the world for a while. It's just been a big influence on who I am today. — Sara Watkins

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians. — Brandi Carlile

I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically. — Ralph Stanley

But, mark my words; someday she'll get what's coming to her. Karma's a bigger bitch than she is, — Kathleen Brooks

Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it. — Bill Monroe

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. — Bela Fleck

I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit down to write. — Kent Haruf

When you're a kid, you listen to what your family is listening to. For my family, it was bluegrass. — Sara Watkins

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way. — Ricky Skaggs

I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that. — Dan Fogelberg

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. — Alison Krauss

When I was playing bluegrass, I was living down in West Hollywood - starving. — Chris Hillman

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

Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself. — John Hartford

I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals. — David B. Coe

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

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album. — Alan Jackson

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air. — Steve Martin

Although it was hard to tell, with bluegrass, wether or not they were supposed to sound like geese. — Sarah McCarry

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

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

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