Bela Fleck Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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.”
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“It doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.”
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“I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.”
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“I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.”
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“I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.”
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“When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!”
-- Bela Fleck
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