40 Quotes by Bela Fleck

They went crazy over that, and then they just opened up.

I'm just full of ideas. I have hundreds of possibilities. Hopefully, I'll continue to have space for that creativity to happen.

I think I’m getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.

There are a lot of chapters to the banjo’s history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it’s a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.

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

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.

There’s a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I get to be one of the guys who does that, because it’s coming. It’s coming.

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

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