Practice every time you get a chance

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.

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.

A true love is not shouting and yelling for your beloved, but silently struggling for her honor

my talent is my pride

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

Top results are achieved only through pain. But eventually you like this pain.

One must dare to show what he wants. You have to go and ask for things rather than wait for them to happen.

I can do my part of the storytelling. I can carry it. I can paint it. I can maneuver it. I can massage it. But if I don't have anything to work with, then there's nothing.

It's always inspiring to watch live music.

Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.

Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.

Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version.