A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo — John Hartford Copy Share Image
Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me. — Rupert Grint Copy Share Image
I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the… — Doc Watson Copy Share Image
The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
And then Earl Scruggs comes along and transforms the banjo into a virtuosic modern instrument. For the first time, the Southern banjo… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don't know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it… — Warryn Campbell Copy Share Image
Banjos are used in Celtic, English folk music and obviously American music. But not that much in pop music. But it's more… — Winston Marshall Copy Share Image
I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
My mother played a little bit of the old time clawhammer. She tuned the banjo up and picked one tune for me,… — Ralph Stanley Copy Share Image
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
My daughter Meredith Moon from my second wife has a band that does Appalachian music, with five-strong banjo, clawhammer style. I may… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I'm working on a script right about Civil War re-enactors who go back in time to the actual Civil War. It's kind… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation]… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and… — Michael Martin Murphey Copy Share Image
I mean if it wasn't for Earl Scruggs, guys like me wouldn't be doing what we're doing. I mean, he's changed so… — Earl Scruggs Copy Share Image
I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for little babies... When a little baby is born into this cold world, he's confused! He's frightened! He needs… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
When I got out of school, I spent two years just hitchhiking around. Every time I met some old farmer who could… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a… — Les Dawson Copy Share Image
She dumped me for the quarterback after she'd played my body like a banjo. So Sad." "I bet" "I'm serious. I was… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff… Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling… — Valerie Sayers Copy Share Image
It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it’s time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck… — Eddie Condon Copy Share Image
I happened to take a photo, and there was my wife, my dog and my banjo, all in the same shot -… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I… — Burl Ives Copy Share Image
You look at the instrumentation, and you can't really argue that we set out with commercial aspirations. Banjos and things like that… — Ted Dwane Copy Share Image
There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking." "Uncle Tom?" "I wish there was something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And… — Ralph Stanley Copy Share Image
![“. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation] of your book? And I had no idea that he would answer me, because he's pretty elusive. But he did send a letter back that said, Yes, you can do that - as long as the only instrument in the…” quote by Laurie Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9b8/laurie-anderson-3908_adaptation_i-wrote-a-letter-to-thomas-pynchon-askin_2978759.jpg)
![“This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.” quote by Eddie Condon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d25/eddie-condon-39026_banjo_this-all-came-of-a-conversation-i-had-wi_1847661.png)
