Bill Monroe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.
-- Bill Monroe

#Years #People #Together
I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.
-- Bill Monroe

#Want #Determined #Copies
I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.
-- Bill Monroe

#Voice #Tenors #Farmers
Practice every time you get a chance
-- Bill Monroe

#Practice #Chance
Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.
-- Bill Monroe

#Wonderful #Bluegrass #Glad
I just wanted a style of music all my own.
-- Bill Monroe

#Music #Style #Wanted
I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the name "bluegrass." There is not a prettier name in the whole world.
-- Bill Monroe

#Music #Names #People
Country music belongs to America.
-- Bill Monroe

#Country #America #Rock N Roll
I just hope bluegrass entertainers take care of their music and take care of their fans. If you don't practice, the man next door who is practicing will beat you.
-- Bill Monroe

#Men #Doors #Practice

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
I always thought the name of Utahâ€™s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word â€œdesert.â€ But no, Deseret is the â€œland of the honeybee,â€ according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.
One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No oneâ€¦gets left behind. An instrument of good.
I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.

Bill Monroe famous quotes

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