“Plain old country fiddle is what I like, and it takes a lot of practice and staying with it. You got to live the fiddle, that’s the way I look at it; keep your ears open, learn all you can. It doesn’t come to you; you have to go get it.”Quoted by Doc Hamilton and Dick Spottswood in “Fiddlin’ Paul Warren,”Bluegrass Unlimited, February 1978. Came to Fame With
Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, 1954-1969 Performed With
Johnnie Wright and the Happy Roving Cowboys (later Tennessee Hillbillies), 1938-1942
Johnnie and Jack & the Tennessee Mountain Boys, 1946-1954
Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, 1954-1969
Lester Flatt and the Nashville Grass, 1969-1977