“That's the point of music, to not be selfish and to help other people, I think.” PeopleThinkingHelpingSelfishHelping OthersBeing Selfish Author:Zac Farro
“I doubt anybody would have pushed me [on the music]. When I was at Sony nobody ever gave me any creative suggestions on the music.” CreativeDoubtSuggestionsSony Author:Bela Fleck
“I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.” ThinkingGoneMaterialsEvolutionMusical Author:Bela Fleck
“Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.” ShouldMadeShould HaveDocumentaries Author:Bela Fleck
“I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people.” PeopleOpportunityMissingBusyFocusedInteracting Author: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 banjo as an escape.” ThinkingLittlesProblemUsedFightingMy OwnGet BetterDemonBanjos Author:Bela Fleck
“I was a big fan of a writer named Jack Vance, a science fiction writer. He always wrote about these guys who were either going down a river in a strange world or would be in this one land where people acted really strange, and he'd have these interactions with them that were strange - he'd usually get run out of town or something. Then he'd end up in the next town over where the rules were totally different. And I love this stuff.” PeopleWorldDifferentEndsBigsWould BeRunningGuyNextStuffFictionFansLandStrangeRiversTownsScience FictionInteractionFiction WritersStrange World Author: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 me one, almost by mistake. He knew I was playing a little bit of guitar. He saw a banjo at a flea market and bought it. I took it home with me and just never put it down. I was fifteen.” FirstsLittlesHomeBitsMistakeSawsHeardLittle BitConsciousGuitarGrandfatherFifteenMy GrandfatherFleasBanjosFlea Markets Author:Bela Fleck
“There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesRootsInstrumentsSlaveChaptersPrimitiveBanjos Author:Bela Fleck
“And then Earl Scruggs comes along and transforms the banjo into a virtuosic modern instrument. For the first time, the Southern banjo style becomes the identity of the banjo, and everything from before is wiped off of people's consciousness by the power of that explosion.” PeopleFirstsConsciousnessModernStyleIdentityFirst TimeInstrumentsSouthernExplosionsBanjos Author:Bela Fleck
