I mean if it wasn't for Earl Scruggs, guys like me wouldn't be doing what we're doing. I mean, he's changed so many people's lives, honestly. I was t….

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina..

Earl Scruggs is the guy who really made that leap with using three fingers in a rotating fashion to create this fast rippling sound that had never be….

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention..

He [Earl Scruggs] was really cool because he was very quiet, and he wouldn't say much, but then he would come out with a quip that was like so perfec….

It's made a lot of people richer from hearing Earl Scruggs. And I just think we're all very lucky to have him in the world..

Earl Scruggs had this thing that it wasn't just the technique or even the instrument. It was him. There was this soulful quality that came through th….

I've heard of people stopping their cars, having car wrecks, all kinds of things. But most of the banjo players I know had that moment when they hear….

Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged ver….

Earl Scruggs wears two finger picks and a thumb pick, and by alternating them, he can play about as fast as he wants. So it's this action. You know, ….

I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about it..

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys t….

If you don't let things develop, it's like keeping something in a bag and not letting it out to fly.

You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it..