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.

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.

Practice every time you get a chance

I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the name "bluegrass." There is not a prettier name in the whole world.

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

I just hope bluegrass entertainers take care of their music and take care of their fans. If you don't practice, the man next door who is practicing will beat you.

Country music belongs to America.

I just wanted a style of music all my own.

Practice every time you get a chance.

Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as much as humbling him.

I think it's my nature to try and make original content, and that's what I've done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently.

Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

Look, isn't there any way you can just stamp me as not crazy and let me get outta here.

Having more success allows you more freedom to take more risks and do things.

Tell me who I am. (29)

A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.

I have a father who came from nothing and conquered the world. The last thing I'm going to do is sit here and spend his money and try to look pretty. That's not interesting to me at all.

More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.