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We're all big fans of bluegrass.
We came out of bluegrass, so we could play.
I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.
Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.
I was four days old when I went to my first bluegrass festival.
I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that.
We have to make a living and you can't do that playing bluegrass.
I learned to love bluegrass, but my first love stayed hard country.
I grew up playing bluegrass as a youngster, and I'm happy that I did.
In my 30s, I became more open to music other than country or bluegrass.
Coming from bluegrass background, I totally understand family harmonies.
Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.
I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.
When I was playing bluegrass, I was living down in West Hollywood - starving.
It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.
I went to Appalachian State University, which was very bluegrass- and folk-oriented.
It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.
I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.
I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.
I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam.
I love bluegrass music, I love acoustic music, and I try at the right times to push that a little bit.
When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.
No I don't play bluegrass harmonica or anything like that. I don't listen to country or bluegrass records.
The question is not how do we get diversity into bluegrass, but how do we get diversity back into bluegrass?
What makes one type of music classical and one bluegrass and one folk - these things aren't what's important.
I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.
I certainly love the bluegrass ensemble, I think it's a powerful tool, but I don't think it's more than a tool.
I guarantee you there's a bunch of the twentysomethings that don't know that, don't know I play banjo and bluegrass.
People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.
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.
I always loved country gospel from back when I was a teenager in high school and started listening to bluegrass quite a lot.
The music scene in Michigan is really folky and bluegrass, but my parents played a lot of disco. They really liked to dance.
My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
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.
I laid my country music aside for quite a while... because bluegrass audiences didn't care to hear it. But it just kept haunting me.
Black people created rock music, it's a fact. Black people created bluegrass and rock and roll way before Elvis Presley and The Beatles.
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.
That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.
In bluegrass, there's a lot of joke-telling and a lot of banter between bandmates. It's like improv or watching the 'Carol Burnett Show.'
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 became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz.
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.
I got into bluegrass music when I was 14, as a way to get into a band. My brother and I had a band and our own radio show, and that's what was popular.
I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.
I think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's not part of the musical mainstream anymore.
What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues, to classical and big band and then go to pop and rap.
Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.
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.