Playing my banjo. Me and my hombre named Poncho. I would…

When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't…

— Abigail Washburn

“Tell me this, pal, why isn't everybody sitting on a fence in the moonlight playing a banjo? That's all I want to know.”

— Vincent Lawrence

I play banjo, and in Britain, it's easy to get away with playing banjo because you don't often see it on U.K. stages. In…

— Winston Marshall

I didn't actually start playing the banjo until I was in high school.

— Maggie Rogers

I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing…

— Ketch Secor

Well I started out on guitar, so it is still the mainstay of my music. But I have recently been working very hard on…

— Livingston Taylor

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.

— Dave Davies

When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show.

— Rickey Medlocke

Any date that requires you to don a plastic poncho while inside an establishment with a liquor license is going to be incredible.

— Rachel Lindsay

At any minute, I am four minutes from a poncho.

— Demetri Martin

Imagine that, a poncho sombrero combo, I'll be off my tits on happiness.

— Noel Fielding

It's impossible to be unhappy while wearing a poncho!

— Noel Fielding

“And what else but a being cursed with the burden of free will would wear a poncho.”

— Colson Whitehead

“Amy: Pond and her boys . . . my poncho boys. If we're going to die, let's die looking like a peruvian folk band.”

— Simon Nye

In a strange way, I don't have a job, so I have a lot of time on my hands. When I do work, it…

— Steve Martin