I didn't actually start playing the banjo until I was in high school. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
I'll talk about the banjo all day long and the history of minstrel shows. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin. — Page McConnell Copy Share Image
We never could have foreseen the success of 'Babel.' It's not like banjo records were soaring up the charts, you know. — Ted Dwane Copy Share Image
The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I love a band that has a banjo, that does group harmonies and yells out the word 'Hey' or 'Woo.' I live… — Cristin Milioti Copy Share Image
The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have one nerve left right now and youre bangin on it like some cheap banjo string. GAS 06/15/06 — Gary A Shoop Copy Share Image
I play a replica of a banjo from the 1950s. It was the first commercial-style banjo in the United States so it's… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar. — Michael Storm Copy Share Image
The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a vey enlightening place to… — Dave Davies Copy Share Image
Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know,… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
“There was talk of the Centaur being moved into the elephant cages to make room for a banjo-picking Minotaur. Surrendering his meager… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“I never knew you played the banjo!" cried Harris and I, in one breath. "Not exactly," replied George: "but it's very easy,… — Jerome K Jerome Copy Share Image
I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
I always loved the guitar, from when I was quite little. My dad had a G banjo at the house that he… — Dave Davies Copy Share Image
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
I wrote a post about wanting to buy a banjo - a $300 banjo, which is a lot of money, and I… — Mena Grabowski Trott Copy Share Image
My daughter Meredith Moon from my second wife has a band that does Appalachian music, with five-strong banjo, clawhammer style. I may… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
My family was always playing music; I always enjoyed it. My cousin, who is a little older than me, he started playing… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
Well I started out on guitar, so it is still the mainstay of my music. But I have recently been working very… — Livingston Taylor Copy Share Image
My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
When I was very young my mother sang to me at bedtime and my dad would often play the banjo or fiddle… — Rory Block Copy Share Image
I've heard of people stopping their cars, having car wrecks, all kinds of things. But most of the banjo players I know… — Earl Scruggs Copy Share Image
I just naturally started to play music. My whole family played-my daddy played, my mother played. My daddy played bass, my cousin… — T-Bone Walker Copy Share Image
“banjo. A plucked, fretted lute where a thin skin diaphragm is stretched over a circular metal frame amplifying the sound of the… — Liz Doherty Copy Share Image
“After supper was over and the toasts had been drunk, the boy Pablo was called in to play for the company while… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself. — Carl Sandburg 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
If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me. — Rupert Grint Copy Share Image
The bottom line is, between Sonny Osborne and Earl Scruggs, I better know how to play banjo. I had the greatest teachers… — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
