Ashley Judd Quotes

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

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

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

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

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

I was a huge fan of Damien Rice - and I am a huge fan still!

We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It's fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive.

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.

When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

I used to love, and I still do, Lee Ann Womack. And Alison Krauss. I mean, how many Grammys does she have? She's just remained solid and true and great, and I respect that.

I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.

It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bluegrass that I wouldn't necessarily call bluegrass, but what they're calling country music today I'm not sure that I would call country music. But I love music and I try to encourage people.

A lot of great bluegrass comes out of Kentucky. There's a lot of great music, like the Judds, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ricky Skaggs, and Keith Whitley. There's a lot of bluegrass intertwined with country music.

Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.

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.

I love Taylor Swift, and I've always been such a fan of her.

I went to Appalachian State University, which was very bluegrass- and folk-oriented.

I looooove Jason Isbell.

I just wanna go on the record to say I talk about U2 so much, I should be their publicist. I should be added to the PR team. U2 is my favorite band of all time. I love them so much.

I've always been a huge fan of Beck.

I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.

We're all big fans of bluegrass.

I got into bluegrass music when I was 14, as a way to get into a band. My brother and I had a band and our own radio show, and that's what was popular.

When I was 5 years old, I got my first record. It was 'Flatt & Scruggs' Greatest Hits.' The second was 'The Fabulous Johnny Cash.'

I love John Denver. Townes Van Zandt is one of my all-time favorites.