40 Quotes by Bela Fleck

My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.

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.

I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true.

So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.