Bruce Molsky Quotes

#1. My grandfather and my dad's brothers and my dad all worked in construction. It's the whole cultural thing, you know, your parents want you to go to the next level of whatever, and I decided that I ought to be an architect. I can't tell you why. And I tried, and I had no aptitude for it.

Bruce Molsky

#2. Strength doesn't come from what you do, strength is from who you are.

Bruce Molsky

#3. Sometimes when I teach a student something that I think is really simple, I realize I'm teaching them something they can do 90 percent of really easily and the last 10 percent is going to take them 10 years.

Bruce Molsky

#4. There are people that appreciate the music for its musical value and there are people that will always think that it should be reserved as an expression for people who grew up with it.

Bruce Molsky

#5. I've kind of codified certain things for myself, rhythmic patterns and mechanical ways of using the bow to create layers of rhythm. What I'm trying to do is to create a complete piece of music on one instrument.

Bruce Molsky