Grammy Award Winners

"You know I’m, you know I’m not dead, I’m just living in my head. Forever waiting On the ways of your desire. You always find a way And through it all Into us all you move, Forgotten touch, Forbidden thought. We can never have enough."

"You and me Meant to be. Immutable, Impossible. It’s destiny, Pure lunacy. Incalculable, Inseparable.But for the last time, You’re everything That I want and asked for. You’re all that I dream."

"Try to hold on to this heart a little bit longer. Try to hold on to this love aloud. Try to hold on, for this heart’s a little bit colder. Try to hold on to this love."

"Last chance to make believe in always and all it seems. Train wrecks hide underneath your umbrella, Set the frame destiny on this first name soliloquy. Tired symphonies play downward.Let me give the world to you my love. Let me give the world to you my love. Let me show you what I'm thinking of. Let me give the world to you my love."

"Please don’t stop, It’s lonely at the top. These lonely days, When will they ever stop? This doomsday clock ticking in my heart. Not broken.I love life every day, In each and every way. Kafka would be proud, to find out I’m certain of the end. It’s the means that has me spooked It takes an unknown truth to get out."

"We are the real, If real ever was. And just because We are the ruin Of every living soul, We are surreal 'Cause someone gave us up.Don't break the oath, I want to love you when you're happy. Don't break this oath, I want to be there when you're sad. Freeze-frame the pouring rain."

"Rise! Love is here Oh don’t make me wonder. Life’s never clear where choice is a gift To use and abuse, To build on proof. Oh don’t make me suffer. Birds find the wind and wing, Rest in the shells I’ve designed, Run through the fields I’ve denied, And stroll upon the years I’m alive.There’s a sun that shines in, There’s a world that stares out at me And all I refuse to please."

"Never let the summer catch you down. Never let your thoughts run free. Even when their numbers draw you out. Everything I want is free. ‘Til the end ‘Til the end ‘Til the end I’m gonna love you 101 percent. I’m gonna love you ‘til this ends."

"When they say What it's worth, The world tells you first. And you know Where to hurt.The world's on fire so The world's on fire so The world's on fire so Have you heard?"

"I don't mind what you're running 'Cause you and me we're just something. Don't just hang what you're running on I don't mind we're so alone."

"Find first obsessions before yourself A candlesong for where you are. You can't escape this, like someone else. Your love remains."

"Away, away foul dreams, You're gonna listen now to me. No rules, or in-betweens, You're gonna listen now to me. Waste all your time, Find another kind of boy. A feint up on the line, A phantom I don't care to hold."

"Stumbling before you speak, Stunning and stunning and stunning the black. You turn turncoat, Inward to seek out all your hopes. It's your signals That hurt me most.We’re in the middle, We’re in the middle: Ghosts."

"Whomever wants you alone, Whomever wants you atoned, It's with this prayer, I disown Whomever wants you alone."

"Fragments form the mind, Shadows hold the mist. Fractured as this wish, Shattered I resign. We're on the verge, we're on the verge Of sacred dawning and sloe-sloe eyesSay, I done told you Say how I tried too. Where you've wrought From creation's crown Say, dire warning Stare down your masters With the promise of (With the promise of) One and what you are. We're on the verge."

"So swallow hard the serpents Of many tags and faces hid in masks, Coiled 'round this lung until the last. He’ll crack your boots, young pagans 'Cause like you, I was hatched to traipse on cold And seventeen's a long drawn way from home."

"Take me away, I'm gonna find you. Take me away, I'm gonna find you. 'Cause nobody else could ever mind you. Take me away, I'm gonna find you."

"Nails to the quick Daddy died and liars lie. A bit more than sick A dash in bittersweet What's that make of me? Save a lost thing, No choice but a choice to leave.Can't you make me believe? Up where the others dare. What chance have I, what chances we? Would fight in love's affair."

"Moog, who died in 2005, did not invent the synthesizer. Instead, “he’s the one who made it mainstream,” says Mark Ballora, professor of music technology at Penn State University. He became a celebrity, and people used “Moog” (which rhymes with “vogue”) as a synonym for electronic music."

"Wayne Shorter, who turns eighty this month, and Sonny Rollins are two of the finest saxophonists living today."

"You listen and think, "That guy sure plays some crashing and unpredictable things behind Miles," but then you listen closely and every note of his ride cymbal is somehow the exact same volume, like a typewriter."

"While Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke were major innovators in the electric bass, Victor Wooten has been a vital pace-setter on the instrument with his virtuosic playing and his two-handed approach. From his work with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones in the early '90s to his solo releases over the last seventeen years, Wooten has shown he's clearly huge force in the electric bass. His outstanding 1996 debut, A Show of Hands, is just one document of just how far Wooten can take the bass."

"A multi-Grammy Award winner, Wooten has long been the backbone of the jazz-infused Bela Fleck and the Flecktones but worked with Clarke in the supergroup SMV. One of the most sought-after bassists in the world, Wooten also showcased his harder, edgier side while working with the metal group Nitro. Ridiculously talented on both the fretted and fretless bass, Wooten has also excelled while playing the double bass and even the cello. Truly one of the most gifted and appreciated musicians that should receive more mainstream recognition."

"With traditional clean Telecaster tone typically running straight into the amp (usually a Princeton Reverb or Deluxe Reverb) and often drenched in shimmering reverb, country hit-maker Marty Stuart deftly rolls Don Rich, Ralph Mooney and Clarence White all into one and makes it look easy. Stuart is the prime exponent in modern country of the sinuous pedal steel sound of the B-Bender Telecaster."

"Way ahead of his time, and the forerunner of every top-tapping, open-tuning, harmonic-loving acoustic warrior out there, Michael Hedges was a trailblazer. Close your eyes and you could be listening to three guitarists. Open them, and it’s just Hedges, dancing his way across the fretboard, breaking boundaries for fun. A great talent taken far too soon."

"To any new country fans who think Chris Stapleton is forging new ground by bringing that much soul into country music … where have y’all been?"

"When Tritt came along, he quickly became Waylon Jennings’ favorite new artist. Is there a bigger compliment?"

"[Campbell's] impact as a guitar player, musician, and singer transcended genre categorization. That said, for many, he's considered a country star first and foremost, and one that was a bonafide master of the 6-string."

"Nobody could have put voice to those great Jimmy Webb-penned tunes like the Rhinestone Cowboy."

"[Campbell] has a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and earned crossover success on the adult contemporary charts, which is no easy task for a country singer. His hits during the 1960s and 1970s earned him status a pop culture fixture."

"[Glen Campbell is] considered one of the finest guitar players to ever front a country band."

"With his phenomenal ear, Wes quickly grew beyond his influences and developed a style all his own. His knack for melody, groundbreaking use of octaves in a soloing context and intricate chord solos—as demonstrated in his devastating interpretations of standards like “Round Midnight” and “Days of Wine and Roses”—broadened the range of guitar, pushing the instrument into unchartered territory."

"When I was growing up people would always say, and it was meant in the kindest possible way, ‘You’re really good for a girl,’ because there weren’t a lot of girls or women playing. Out of this small pond of people, it was surprising to them. In my opinion, you’d have to be pretty unworldly to make a comment like that anymore. Nobody had the success that Alison Krauss had. So, when that happened, I think it started to make it difficult for people to look at women in bluegrass as some kind of exceptional thing. Here was a woman who really blew out the boundaries for the music and really expanded the potential for the music and brought in new listeners."

"At age 17, he had a radical conception of the drums that rocked the world then and sounds as fresh today. You can tell he’s hearing the music in slow motion. He could see the forest, so to speak."

"You remain turned away Turning further every day"

"What could you possibly see in little ol’ three-chord me?"

"How stupid is it? I can’t talk about it I gotta sing about it And make a record of my heart"

"Tonight, I’m down on my knees Tonight, I’m begging you please Tonight, tonight, please Oh, why can’t I be makin’ love come true?"

"Goddamn, this business is really lame"

"Everyone’s a little queer Why can’t she be a little straight?"

"I did what my body told me to I didn't mean to do you harm"

"I’m shaking at your touch, I like you way too much"

"I’m dumb, she’s a lesbian I thought I had found the one We were good as married in my mind But married in my mind’s no good."

"Goddamn, you half-Japanese girls do it to me every time"

"The workers are going home"

"Ooh-wee-hoo, I look just like Buddy Holly"

"When we couldn’t find sleep, things were better then"

"What’s with these homies dissin’ my girl? Why do they gotta front?"

"You can’t resist her, she’s in your bones [...] And so it seems, only in dreams"

"You take your car to work, I’ll take my board And when you’re out of fuel, I’m still afloat."