118 Quotes by Marty Stuart

As big as the industry is now and as gargantuan and stretched out with as many buses and trucks as there are now, it is still a big old dysfunctional family in my mind.

When I was 12 years old I discovered Bill Monroe and my dad got me a mandolin.

I've always loved gospel music. Being raised in Mississippi, it was kind of part of the atmosphere down there.

There wasn't really a lot of difference from a Mississippi perspective between what Elvis did on 'Mystery Train' or 'Milkcow Blues' or what Bill Monroe was playing or what Flatt and Scruggs was playing; it was rock 'n' roll to me.

I can't remember when I didn't have an instrument around.

Hillbilly Rock' was the song that opened the door and gave me a reason to get a bus and a band and cowboy clothes to go out there and figure it out in front of everybody. And the hits started coming.

Well, the first band was at nine, and I was on the road when I was 12 with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers.

The Ryman and the Grand Ole Opry, if you're a Southern boy, is just a way of life.

Well, I was dedicated to God before I was born by Momma and Daddy, and I was raised in a very traditional Southern Baptist home.