Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chad Hershner

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.

Joe Mullins

I did that so we could end the day with something no one would forget. Four bluegrass legends saluting a fifth legend.

Chris Hillman

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.

Imelda May

Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.

Chris Stapleton

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.

Timothy Simons

My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's a bluegrass musician. It's always been a part of the family.

Ricky Skaggs

With the name and the recognition that we've had for the last 15 years here in the business, I really think that we can make a difference and just let people know that, hey, bluegrass is cool, it's hip, and it's awesome, and if it's done in a great way and a great presentation, I don't know who wouldn't like it.

Emmylou Harris

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

Mark O'Connor

He was one of the greatest, most creative fiddlers in country and bluegrass music history.

Sheila E.

My genre of music is very eclectic. I might play some Latin jazz, or just go into a spontaneous jazz thing. That's the thing about coming to one of my performances. Not every show is the same.

Andy Cohen

No one can say this is a niche genre because my mom is emailing me (Internet) videos, as is my nephew.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.

Tom Selleck

I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.

Neill Blomkamp

The only genre of movie that I could see making that doesn't have anything magical or otherworldly about it would be a war film. I'm very interested in history, and a war film could be something that would lure me in.

Noah Taylor

I have been working on this project trying to record a little record a month just at home in a different genre for each one,

Guy Gavriel Kay

I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.

Olivia Cooke

If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.

Sarah McLachlan

There are women in every genre having a lot of success. Why not celebrate that?

LaToya London

I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.

John Edwards

I'm a mainstream North Carolinian, ... I think my views and values represent the values of most people in this country.

Bob Dylan

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Billy Corgan

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

David Moody

We talked about what they already know ? that they spend a lot of time watching TV and that what they see is spread into mainstream ideals.

Anne Boleyn

I didn't care whether or not it was acceptable to mainstream society to be in a rock band. This is what I wanted to do.

Nicole Miller

I think they're more mainstream than people realize. The soda started out very Gen-X, but I think they've transcended that.

Bill Gates

The mainstream is always under attack.

Issa Rae

There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media.

Janice Stockigt

Several of its themes and musical motifs are strikingly similar to those present in other Vivaldi works.

Jason Moore

For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.

David Bowie

When the musical keyboard was created in the 1970's, you had electronic geeks that had no background in music created these devises and gave them to musicians that had no background in electronics. The result was some of the wierd sounds that came out in the '70s.

Rita Moreno

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

Joel Murray

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

Slash

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

David Gilmour

No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.

Nathan Lane

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

Lin-Manuel Miranda

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.