John Hartford quotes:

Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

The best way to express rhythm is music.

You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

Style is based on limitations.

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.

You cannot run a successful retail business from memory.

She dries her eyes and bakes her pies and leaves 'em on the window sill

Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.

You read about somebody, and doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.

Just when you think it can't get no better, then it does.

Sometimes when a new piece of knowledge comes along you suddenly change your priorities and focus on something completely different instead.