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• ‟ Country's hip; it's cool music.

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• ‟ The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

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• ‟ That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

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• ‟ It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

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• ‟ Maybe you're going to a concert thinking you're not going to hear anything but music. But you may walk away from there with an answer to a problem that you're carrying around with you that you didn't think you were going to hear about.

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• ‟ I mean, I could tell that I really had... a precious gift. And I'm so glad that I have followed through with it and really used that gift and nurtured it, honed it, made it sharp and tried to use it as a tool now to make music and to make a living for my family.

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• ‟ Great music is great music, period.

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• ‟ It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bluegrass that I wouldn't necessarily call bluegrass, but what they're calling country music today I'm not sure that I would call country music. But I love music and I try to encourage people.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I love. I just love doing music because I'm not going to follow the patterns and formulas of Music Row.

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• ‟ When I came here it wasn't that I was anti-Music Row, but it was like I was going against the grain of what everybody on Music Row was doing, and that's what has made me successful.

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• ‟ When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

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• ‟ I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

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• ‟ I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.

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• ‟ I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

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• ‟ I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

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