"There’s a lot of complications in this industry for being on the road as a female musician in a more conservative musical world. We just saw the first female winner for instrumental categories this year at IBMA, for a fiddle player, Becky Buller and for a mandolin player, Sierra Hull. It’s one thing to nominated in those categories; it’s a whole other thing to win it."

"I think that there’s definitely a younger generation coming to bluegrass that sees the world in a different light. You saw this energy and this charge that came from younger people coming in to bluegrass and IBMA and really caring about inclusivity. It affected some of the professionals and the people who have been in the business for longer; we saw them empowered to speak on behalf of inclusivity.”"

"In addition to coming from a powerful music family (she’s a fifth-generation fiddler), Kimber Ludiker is also one of the best known ambassadors of bluegrass today. Through her work with her all-female bluegrass band Della Mae and her work overseas with the U.S. State Department, Ludiker’s been a voice for reason, pushing for more diversity and inclusiveness in bluegrass. A dedicated sidewoman in bluegrass, she’s keen to improve opportunities for women who aren’t bandleaders in bluegrass."

"If we’d like to be honest about gender in the music world, we need to address all parties. Women need to invest in themselves, hustle for gigs, network, and do the work of forming bands and cultivating their own talents if they would like to be taken seriously. The industry pretty much always rewards women who do these things. I’m not interested in any special handout just for being a woman. But on the other hand, if a woman is doing these things, yet she’s told ‘We already have enough women on the bill, so we’ll call you next year’—now that’s an issue. No one says to a male artist, ‘We already have enough men on the bill!’"

"The first woman to be featured on the cover of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine, Frazier’s talent as a guitarist is much respected in bluegrass circles."

"Bill [Monroe], in some ways, he was very inarticulate about his feelings. In other ways, he was very profound about his feelings. And when you got him into a certain mood where he was being more introspective, he really could be very profound, I felt."