27 Quotes About Bluegrass

A completely different type of audience. They really like traditional bluegrass music over there.

I went through a phase where I wanted to reject everything I thought was redneck. Bluegrass was part of that.

All of the plants that we do not consider food that are safe for the human body to digest, we don't eat because they're sour and bitter. The reason why you don't eat Kentucky bluegrass or crabgrass is because it tastes sour and bitter.

I think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's not part of the musical mainstream anymore.

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,

Last year, we had mostly jazz, bluegrass and Broadway. We saw we needed more Broadway, story dance and family events. We've got something for everyone.

All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.

Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.

Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country world that I grew up listening to and that first drew me in. And then I always try to find somewhere for a bluesy guitar sound, because that's also what I love. Musically, I'm always finding my way home.