Scruggs Quotes

#1. 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, you couldn't move one finger that fast, but all three, it's pretty easy, and it's kind of an incredible leap.

Earl Scruggs

#2. I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.

Ricky Skaggs

#3. In other words, learn your Scruggs's rolls before trying to play like Bela Fleck.

Tony Trischka

#4. Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole history of the banjo, I feel really good about it, including the Earl Scruggs part.

Bela Fleck

#5. 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

#6. 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 perfect and so brilliant, very smart.

Earl Scruggs

#7. When we went into the New England states, people were talking about the new sound of Flatt & Scruggs, but we had been doing that sound for 20 years.

Lester Flatt

#8. My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.

Bela Fleck

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

Earl Scruggs

#10. My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.

Jimmy Page

#11. 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 been heard before.

Earl Scruggs

#12. 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.

Bela Fleck

#13. 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 that play so well.

Earl Scruggs

#14. Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged verse. Her best-known volume, "Diving into the Wreck," won the National Book Award in 1973.

Earl Scruggs

#15. I like drums, really, if they're under control.

Earl Scruggs

#16. I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

Earl Scruggs

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

Earl Scruggs

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

Earl Scruggs

#19. And my dream for you ... , is that you'll catch a glimpse of what I love so much about fashion: It's boldness and creativity, the confidence that it takes to stand before a camera and let your image be captured, even though you aren't perfect, the peace to be truly okay with how others see you.

Lauren Scruggs

#20. You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.

Earl Scruggs

#21. A beautiful heart wants to know God and gets to know him through his Word.

Lauren Scruggs

#22. Because with time, faith, and love ... even our scars can become beautiful.

Lauren Scruggs

#23. My music came up from the soil of North Carolina,

Earl Scruggs

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

Earl Scruggs

#25. I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone and the other played drums. It wasn't a regular job but I did a few gigs around home with them.

Earl Scruggs

#26. She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.

Earl Scruggs

#27. He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

Earl Scruggs

#28. I hated the mirror and avoided it as much as I could. A glimpse would only remind me: I'll never be normal again.

Lauren Scruggs

#29. If you sit around and wait for it to happen, its going to happen.. its just going to happen for somebody else

Lonnie Scruggs

#30. That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.

Earl Scruggs

#31. I feel like my joy in life has intensified, (and) my compassion for people has just strengthened. I have compassion that I wouldn't have had before.

Lauren Scruggs

#32. I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.

Earl Scruggs