Fiddle Music Quotes

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy.

I was always sort of mystified and excited about the world of country music. Something about it struck me as enchanted.

Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.

I’m very proud to say that Buddy MacMaster is my uncle. He gives credibility to what I do and I’m glad I can carry that MacMaster name because he has created such a good name.

The South just keeps right on playing good time Southern music.

We came out of bluegrass, so we could play.

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta.

I enjoy 'down South' music.

The fact that I'm a fifth of Punch Brothers... that's lucky for me because I feel like I get to operate in the context of one of the great string bands. There's just not another string band I would rather be in, and i'm just compelled to make music for and with string bands. It's what I know, and it's kind of like who I am.

I have just one fiddle. It works, and that's it. It has been an old friend.

My dad was a country musician, so we had David Allan Coe and lots of other country music playing around the house all the time.

There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.

I remember so vividly the first time I saw one of Marshall Wyatt's superb compilations called 'Folks He Sure Do Pull Some Bow' and seeing a picture of a black fiddler and freaking out. I had stumbled upon the hidden legacy of the black string band and I wanted to know more.

My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

I'll be very content if I never play 'Devil Went Down to Georgia' again.

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

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