The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on. — 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
“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
A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo — John Hartford 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
Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me. — Rupert Grint 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
When you hear a banjo through stutter edit, it's the coolest thing you ever heard. — Brad Paisley 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
This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck… — Eddie Condon Copy Share Image
Without a drummer, you've got that sort of running, chicken-chasing, rhythmic thing happening with the banjo in the top end - it's… — Ted Dwane Copy Share Image
When I got to NYU, I had applied based on playing folk music, and they said, 'You're the banjo girl,' so I… — Maggie Rogers 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
There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I… — Bela Fleck 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
“But when I make a good [taxidermy] mount I feel like I beat God in a small way. As though the Almighty… — Christopher Buehlman 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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl. — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
I didn't actually start playing the banjo until I was in high school. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin. — Page McConnell 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
![“This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.” quote by Eddie Condon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d25/eddie-condon-39026_banjo_this-all-came-of-a-conversation-i-had-wi_1847661.png)
![“But when I make a good [taxidermy] mount I feel like I beat God in a small way. As though the Almighty said, Let such critter be dead, and I said, 'Fuck You, he can still play the banjo.” quote by Christopher Buehlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e04/christopher-buehlman-42158_banjo_but-when-i-make-a-good-taxidermy-mount-i_3215752.png)
