Tony Rice
Tony Rice
Tony Riceis an American guitarist and bluegrass musician. He is considered one of the most influential acoustic guitar players in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, newgrass and acoustic jazz. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2013...
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth8 June 1951
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That audience was absolutely crazy. And I knew they would be. There had never been anything like that. It was absolutely crazy. They couldn't get enough of that.
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There are only about 4,000 marine-plant species compared with an estimated 250,000 species of terrestrial green plants. Similarly, of the 1.7 million-or-so known animal species, only about one-tenth are from oceans, with most of these living on or close to the bottom in relatively shallow water.
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I knew it was special enough to leave everything I had in Kentucky. Not only would I do it again, I would do it precisely the same way. I already had this new music in my blood. The whole process of doing that was innate leap into some other music form. I didn't have a choice.
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I'd give my left nut to play that music.