Bela Fleck

“So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.”

“They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true.”

“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.”

“I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.”

“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.”

“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.”