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

I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

Sometimes when a new piece of knowledge comes along you suddenly change your priorities and focus on something completely different instead.

Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.

She dries her eyes and bakes her pies and leaves 'em on the window sill

Just when you think it can't get no better, then it does.

What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.

The best way to express rhythm is music.

In the end, class will out. So much talk about helping the poor. It's all words and class interest— in the end.

Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone with him who alone can deliver us from solitude.

We must stop being the stupid party.

I'm going to build my own slam.

There's always things from shooting a film that you pick up that hopefully make you better.

I believe in equal rights for all people.

This is an example of hypocrisy

They are achieving nothing, they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.

If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.