Today marks the first anniversary of Birmingham Box Set. We launched the blog in 2008 to expand Birmingham magazine’s music coverage, both with regard to the nationally touring artists who play in Birmingham and the many excellent bands that call this city their own. It’s been a fun year, and we look forward to much more to come.

To celebrate, we’re giving away two pairs of tickets to the Alabama Symphony Orchestra performance of your choice! Here’s how it will work. Match the following quotes to the musicians who uttered them, all of which come from Birmingham Box Set interviews. Email Carla Jean your answers. The two entries with the most correct answers will each receive a pair of tickets. If more than two contestants answer everything correctly, the winners will be selected at random from correct contest entries.

The deadline to enter is Friday, Nov. 20 at 5 p.m. Winners will be announced Monday, Nov. 23. So start reading, Googling or flat out guessing!

1. “The music fans in Birmingham are exceptional. They tend to pay attention and be very respectful. I think people are very appreciative and hungry for music there. In that sense, it’s exciting to go there because you know people really want it.”

2. “Folk music isn’t a style. It’s music for the folks. It’s telling the untold stories of our people.”

3. “I feel like if I’m in just one scenario, if I’m in just one band or one outlet, it kind of gets stale. I settle into my role there. I don’t really stretch in other areas. There are so many things to be doing all the time.”

4. “I’ve made some mistakes playing in really ritzy places like Aspen where I would play songs steeped in the school of Bruce Springsteen and songs about the people who are slighted by society. It doesn’t go over well. They’re a little too comfortable.”

5. “We wanted to recapture that sense of anticipation, suspense, like when you read monthly comics or had monthly BMG CD delivery. Like when you get something in installments … like the old movie serials or even soap operas. This way, if we’re putting one out every two or three months there’s less of the waiting two years for your favorite band to put out an album. You get new content all the time.”

6. “Every generation always says that their music is better than the last. We just happened to be right.”

7. “The Black Belt of Alabama has really got it. All of the tension, all of the joy, all those layers of history. Some things shocking, and some things beautiful, and even the beauty is sort of a shock to behold.”

8. “Sometimes I’ll play a song and I’ll want to cry on stage. Pull it together, pull it together. But I get nervous … and that helps me not cry!”

9. “I think at once travel kind of limits your perspective and broadens it. It definitely narrows your scope of your personal identity a tiny bit. But with the amount of people you come across and the experience you come across, it also broadens the scope.”

10. “There’s no formula. There’s no, “now that you love music and you’re recording it and you’re playing, this is how you get your music where you’re going. People want different things with it, and it happens different ways with everybody. The level it happens on is so varied. The market is so saturated.”

a. Jon Burr, How I Became the Bomb

b. Tim Brantley

c. Maria Taylor

d. J. Willoughby, Black Jacket Symphony

e. Derek Webb

f. Celeste Griffin, Monarchs

g. Sara Watkins

h. Amos Lee

i. David Wilcox

j. Ketch Secor, Old Crow Medicine Show