20 Quotes by Sam Bush

When you can take the chairlift up and can see the three Ansel Adams peaks, it's just majestic. ... The crowd at Targhee is always up for different types of music. I enjoy it as a listener, too.

Of course, I wasn't old enough to get in these places back then,

Going to play with J.D. was a great lesson in discipline and timing,

Jean-Luc is my violin jazz hero, ... So to have him come out and play that tune with us at Telluride was just a freakout.

My parents always wanted me to not have to work as hard as they did.

Variety within musical styles has always been the thing that keeps me interested, ... But the music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the '70s that if you want to play new grass you have to go through the school of bluegrass. You know, maybe Jack Black can make a movie now called School of Bluegrass . That would be cool.

As I remember, if you actually played, it was OK to be there. But I don't know. Maybe J.D. just said, 'Oh, just come on in.' Nobody messed with J.D. Crowe. Not even back then.

It's just wonderful that he's still here, that he's made it this far.

The best part of that was seeing my 80-year-old dad get out of his farm clothes and get all dressed up. That was the highlight, for sure.