We just played whatever we could get ahold of. If we were at a party and we had a banjo, a mandolin… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note.… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
You know, I only claim to play three instruments. My dad is a banker, but a drummer at heart; and my mom… — Charlie Worsham Copy Share Image
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like,… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I'm interested in all kinds of art. I draw and paint and don't know how to play the banjo, but I do… — Ellar Coltrane Copy Share Image
As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
The energy in the banjo, and the beef in the bass. They're good tools to express yourself. — Ben Lovett Copy Share Image
We think the juxtaposition between banjo solos and songs about the future are really funny. — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show. — Rickey Medlocke Copy Share Image
Playing my banjo. Me and my hombre named Poncho. I would like to get some of your ellegro gato. — Elephant Man Copy Share Image
“Tell me this, pal, why isn't everybody sitting on a fence in the moonlight playing a banjo? That's all I want to… — Vincent Lawrence Copy Share Image
I first thought maybe I'd do a banjo presentation record, where I'd play a couple of songs and get a bunch of… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
I'm into old-time music, I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
There was such hostility to the idea of a banjo being a black instrument. It was co-opted by this white supremacist notion… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don't know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it… — Warryn Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Earl Scruggs had this thing that it wasn't just the technique or even the instrument. It was him. There was this soulful… — Earl Scruggs Copy Share Image
It's horrible for someone to listen to someone learning any instrument - when I was first learning the banjo, I used to… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
Rednecks are like America's pit bulls. They should just sedate those people, drop 'em off in Afghanistan, just let them run wild.… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
When you hear a banjo through stutter edit, it's the coolest thing you ever heard. — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo. — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
It's nice knowing we're putting the banjo, the fiddle, the steel, and the mandolin back out front. — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
“Give me a cuckoo clock and a Sep Winner's Self-Instructor for the Banjo, and I'll join you.” — O. Henry Copy Share Image
My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. — Dave Davies Copy Share Image
The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
And then Earl Scruggs comes along and transforms the banjo into a virtuosic modern instrument. For the first time, the Southern banjo… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
