Earl Scruggs Quotes

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

I don`t think you`ll ever get enough picking.

Of course, with Lester, that was a good run with him, but the boys growing up, they used to bring their friends out to our house.

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.

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.

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.

I like drums, really, if they`re under control.

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.

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

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.

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.