When I got to NYU, I had applied based on playing folk…

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

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

— Michael Storm

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

— Maggie Rogers

Folk music usually romanticises the road. 'Back in my Body' tells the opposite story.

— Maggie Rogers

There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument.…

— Bela Fleck

I've heard of people stopping their cars, having car wrecks, all kinds of things. But most of the banjo players I know had that…

— Earl Scruggs

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

— Mark Twain

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

— Rhiannon Giddens

“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

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

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

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

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

— Rupert Grint