Dan Fogelberg Quotes

I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band.

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.

Bluegrass is in my blood and in my ears.

I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.

My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my interest in that kind of music comes from him constantly listening to this stuff. He's taught me the history of it. It's remarkable how these young kids are now turned on to more traditional old-time music.

People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

I was like, 'Man, bluegrass - that's like Roy Clark playing banjo on 'Hee Haw.' I'm a huge 'Hee Haw' fan. But I didn't know about bluegrass. It seemed like old people's music.

I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam.

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

We're all big fans of bluegrass.

Coming from bluegrass background, I totally understand family harmonies.

I grew up playing bluegrass as a youngster, and I'm happy that I did.

No I don't play bluegrass harmonica or anything like that. I don't listen to country or bluegrass records.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.

Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.

I love bluegrass music, I love acoustic music, and I try at the right times to push that a little bit.

I always play songs that are very based in folk music.

I'm really taken with 'Calling Me Home' by Alice Gerrard.

I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.

'Beneath the Piano' by The Devil Makes Three somehow reminds me of an old Johnny Cash song. The song is a lot of fun and tells a story.