It doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

- Bela Fleck

There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I get to be one of the guys who does tha…

- Bela Fleck

I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one until my grandfather gave m…

- Bela Fleck

I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the …

- Bela Fleck

I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that…

- Bela Fleck

There is a tendency to want to isolate a little bit, from people that might look at me from a fan position, because it's hard to be a real person aro…

- Bela Fleck

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

- Bela Fleck

I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphi…

- Bela Fleck

Sometimes you can fix something that went wrong with what you do next and make it better than it would have been if it hadn't gone wrong, as an impro…

- Bela Fleck