40 Quotes by Bela Fleck

It doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

I doubt anybody would have pushed me [on the music]. When I was at Sony nobody ever gave me any creative suggestions on the music.

I did so much research that I knew what I was getting into. I was trying to find specific musicians.

We've been playing together since June. It's a cool experience on a personal level. They're the guys that I looked up to when I was coming up.

There really had to be some letting go and just sort of giving yourself up to the gods. I worked so hard to be prepared, but I had to be prepared to play things I was NOT prepared for.

It was a very ambitious trip. I have to say, to my surprise, all of our ambitions were fulfilled. All of the musicians we were going down there to record with, we recorded with?I've edited about nine or 10 songs down from the trip, and the stuff is really, really unusual and special. It far exceeds what I hoped for in sort of the refined qualities of it. I thought it might just sort of be rough stuff out in the woods. But ? some of this stuff is just amazingly fine, fine stuff.

It's like music theory, which was created to study what already was. Bluegrass exists, and since it's been around long enough there are people who want to talk about it,

The band deserves to be recorded. And we also recorded a live CD on the tour. Some day that will come out, for sure.

I've gotten back with the band so I could get some rest!