I love five-string banjo. On an electric guitar, let's say…

“banjo. A plucked, fretted lute where a thin skin diaphragm is stretched over a circular metal frame amplifying the sound of the strings. The…

— Liz Doherty

When I was very young my mother sang to me at bedtime and my dad would often play the banjo or fiddle in the…

— Rory Block

It's horrible for someone to listen to someone learning any instrument - when I was first learning the banjo, I used to have to…

— Steve Martin

I also play fiddle, banjo and mandolin.

— Sonny Burgess

My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my…

— Sam Shepard

There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and music gathering…

— Michael Martin Murphey

The bottom line is, between Sonny Osborne and Earl Scruggs, I better know how to play banjo. I had the greatest teachers in the…

— Hank Williams Jr

I guarantee you there's a bunch of the twentysomethings that don't know that, don't know I play banjo and bluegrass.

— Hank Williams Jr

When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my…

— Rhiannon Giddens

Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo.

— Daniel Roth

Earl Scruggs had this thing that it wasn't just the technique or even the instrument. It was him. There was this soulful quality that…

— Earl Scruggs

My family was always playing music; I always enjoyed it. My cousin, who is a little older than me, he started playing music, so…

— Kurt Vile

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

— Michael Storm

Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me.

— Rupert Grint