Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little…

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

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

— Michael Storm

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

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

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

— Daniel Roth

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

— Rhiannon Giddens

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

— Mark Twain

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

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

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

— Page McConnell

Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.

— Robin Williams

“There was talk of the Centaur being moved into the elephant cages to make room for a banjo-picking Minotaur. Surrendering his meager furnishings to…

— Don Roff

John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted…

— Madison Smartt Bell