The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
American music is always best when it comes from a mixture of things. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I really got into Gaelic music and the whole sound of it, and I got to go to Scotland. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I've always liked women singers and appreciate a good story being told. That's what country music used to do on the radio. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be out here touring constantly if I didn't hope that my music was going to do something to somebody. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
When you are a commercial music artist, your music depends on your popularity. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
My life used to be record, tour, record, tour. You can never say no as a freelance musician. I was on the… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
People seem ready for a more in-depth idea of folk music, culture and history. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
It's really funny how I've come round to classical music around the back door with my banjo in my hand, and I… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I think it's important that everybody has access to music, and not just people who live in cities or who can afford… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
We're not here as a black band playing white string band music. You know, we play stuff in the Appalachians, we play… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
There is music out there that is commercially driven, whether you like it or not. That's a peculiarly American innovation. We innovated… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
When I first got into string-band music I felt like such an interloper. It was like I was sneaking into this music… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
There was such hostility to the idea of a banjo being a black instrument. It was co-opted by this white supremacist notion… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
When I do Gaelic music, I've learned about Gaelic culture; I've tried to learn the language. Whenever I do mouth music and… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I kind of have found my identity through the music, through the roots music of North Carolina, and kind of realized that… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I'm discovering so much about how invisible, othered and dismissed the Islamic world is, in terms of the massive effects it had… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to country music. I got into traditional stuff later, but I listened to the commercial stuff of the… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
You know, I really feel a responsibility to the music, and I teach workshops in music sometimes. And folks do come to… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
In order to understand the history of the banjo, and the history of bluegrass music, we need to move beyond the narrative… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
That was the special thing about the Carolina Chocolate Drops. We didn't want to do music full-time. We weren't looking to get… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
It's not about me, it's about the music. I don't do this because I want to be a star. I don't do… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I don't have a genre because I play lots of different music that people would say are different genres. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
In the commercial music world, the folk world, we sell records and concert tickets - this is the way I make a… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I'm so interested in the feminism of women in American music. These ladies, going out on the road, way before the opportunities… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share
I love the U.K. folk scene. In the States, nobody knows what to do with me. There's still a very narrow definition of Americana. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share
For me the bare feet are grounding. I'm connected to the Earth in a way that I cannot be any other way. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share
We have been fed so many false narratives, many of them racialized to deliberately feed a racist agenda. It's important to address and dig… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share
I had this dream like years ago. I had this dream - I wanted to be in an all-black string band. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share
To sit in my concert and be uncomfortable is brave. Because you could always leave, you know? — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share
I'm really interested in history and when I looked into the settlers who came to my home state, North Carolina, I found that the… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share
That was the special thing about the Carolina Chocolate Drops. We didn't want to do music full-time. We weren't looking to get rich, which… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share
When I got into college, I got into operatic vocalists, like Leontyne Price. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share
People seem ready for a more in-depth idea of folk music, culture and history. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share
When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share
