Bluegrass Quotes - Page 2

• I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music.

  Steve Martin

  Nice, Views, Feel Good

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• 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.

  Steve Martin

  Brother, Player, Radio

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• I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of this country. It was interesting to see the evolution of it.

  Clare Bowen

  Country, Interesting, Evolution

  "Clare Bowen, from the Southern Hemisphere to the American South" by Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 10, 2012.

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• 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

  Mother, Country, Father

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• 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

  Thinking, Roots, Mixtures

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• I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Teacher, Brother, Listening

  "It's good being Ricky Skaggs these days". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, articles.chicagotribune.com. September 26, 2012.

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• It's true that bluegrass is a virtuosic form and asks that of its performer. Old-time music is older rawer and purer. It's less stylized. We don't solo. Well sometimes we do, but it's different it has more to do with rock-and-roll than bluegrass does.

  Ketch Secor

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Doe

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk glee inside the bluegrass craft–and a punk vehemence inside the bluegrass smile.

  Greil Marcus

  Running, Listening, Mountain

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• Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply into American blues, gospel, folk hymnody, and hill country dance music. To that gumbo, he added the invigorating rhythms and harmonies of hot jazz. It was a new kind of American music, named in honor of his band The Blue Grass Boys to be known, simply, as bluegrass.

  Paul Zollo

  Music, Country, Boys

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• It's different now but I enjoy it more than I did then. I think I appreciate it more now and I love playing acoustically. This is the way I started. Herb and I met each other forty years ago when we were both eighteen years old, playing bluegrass, and that's what drew me into music, and I enjoyed every particular part of my career. But now I enjoy it because it's the twilight of my career, where I can play what I want and I can play when I want and where I want. And that's the greatest part it all. So it's sort of a right that I've earned. I can record records the way I want to.

  Chris Hillman

  Twilight, Thinking, Years

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• I was always drawn to the roots music, bluegrass, blues, early rock - Sun Records, Elvis [Presley]. And I still love that music to this day. Memphis never gets the credit. It's much more musically rich than Nashville ever will be. Nashville manufactured that hokey-hillbilly image way back.

  Steve Young

  Nashville, Roots, Rocks

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• 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

  Real, Ipods, Different

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• My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record...I'm more impressed with myself when I push the envelope musically than I am when I push it literality.

  Steve Earle

  Musician, Records, Envelopes

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 8, 2007.

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• Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Play, Creative, Political

  "Jeffrey Wright: Professional Politician?". Interview with Valerie Gladstone, www.theroot.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Play, Purple, Style

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• I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.

  Dierks Bentley

  Country, Song, Thinking

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• I like big shows, a lot of volume and a lot of energy. I love electric instruments. But I do love mixing those with bluegrass instruments and cranking those up, too, with a little bit of that rock energy.

  Dierks Bentley

  Rocks, Mixing, Energy

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• I'm just trying to unite the western crowd and the bluegrass crowd a little more. ... I get to do that again on my new album, Tall Grass and Cool Water.... This is the first time I've had every song on an album be a Bluegrass and Cowboy Song at the same time.

  Michael Martin Murphey

  Music, Song, Cowboy

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• There was a band in San Diego, Bluegrass Etc, that played a weekly gig. My parents would take my brother and me every Saturday night for 7 or 8 years. Sean and I started taking lessons with them and they gave us a great foundation in bluegrass instrumentation. They were the lens through which I saw music for a very long time.

  Sara Watkins

  Brother, Night, Years

  "BYT Interviews: Sara Watkins". Interview with Mary Beth McAndrews, brightestyoungthings.com. February 29, 2016.

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• 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

  Who I Am, World, Today

  BYT Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I realized a lot of my friends were going to nightclubs and listening to house music. I was hanging out with them and going to clubs as well but I didn't really understand that kind of music. I was listening to country music and was heavily into Hank Williams, bluegrass, and Bob Dylan. So I just decided I really needed to understand what this music I was hearing in the clubs was all about.

  Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

  Country, House, Listening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's lots of sides. The CD doesn't really create a mood. It creates more of a journey. It starts out with a simple bluegrass tune, sort of melancholy and sad, like "Lovin' and Lyin'," then it's sexy and there's some funny songs in there where I'm talking, like "Designated Drunk." There's a humor side, a sexy side, but there's also a pretty sad side, the country side. It's the backwards side of me!

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Sexy, Country, Song

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Talking, Levels

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• Speaking of WAMU, [bluegrass and old time music DJ] Ray Davis did a lot of work there. I've know Ray, I guess for 50 years - 40, or 50 years. And, he plays a lot of my records.

  Ralph Stanley

  Years, Play, Rays

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• 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.

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Fans, Albums

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