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title: "2 Banjo Quotes By Abigail Washburn"
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> [I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-washburn/i-m-i-guess-you-could-say-the-chinese-speaking-banjo-picking-girl/)

[Abigail Washburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-washburn/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9bd/abigail-washburn-16106_banjo_i-m-i-guess-you-could-say-the-chinese-sp_2274232.png)

> [When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-washburn/when-i-first-started-playing-the-banjo-and-miraculously-fell-into-a/)

[Abigail Washburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-washburn/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c63/abigail-washburn-16106_banjo_when-i-first-started-playing-the-banjo-a_2342579.png)

## Other authors on Banjo

## More by Abigail Washburn

> [I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-washburn/i-feel-like-my-kind-of-music-is-a-big-pot-of-different-spices-it-s-a/)

[Abigail Washburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-washburn/)

> [I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-washburn/i-was-born-in-evanston-illinois-i-spent-my-elementary-and-part-of-my/)

[Abigail Washburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-washburn/)

> [I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-washburn/i-ve-noticed-that-the-more-i-open-up-the-more-i-learn/)

[Abigail Washburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-washburn/)

> [Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-washburn/is-it-an-original-idea-or-is-it-something-where-you-re-literally-a/)

[Abigail Washburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-washburn/)

> [In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-washburn/in-some-ways-in-the-u-s-we-don-t-know-how-to-be-i-think-in-a-lot-of/)

[Abigail Washburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-washburn/)

> [I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-washburn/i-feel-like-the-one-insight-that-s-extremely-comforting-to-me-about/)

[Abigail Washburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-washburn/)

> [My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-washburn/my-parents-played-the-radio-but-music-was-never-an-obsession-or/)

[Abigail Washburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-washburn/)

> [Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-washburn/martin-luther-king-s-i-have-a-dream-speech-always-sends-me-down-some/)

[Abigail Washburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-washburn/)

> [I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-washburn/i-m-no-ethnomusicologist-there-is-a-connection-between-the-five-note/)

[Abigail Washburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-washburn/)

> [As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-washburn/as-a-child-i-went-to-peace-and-era-marches-on-the-back-of-my-mom-and/)

[Abigail Washburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-washburn/)

> [Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-washburn/outside-your-door-the-world-is-waiting-inside-your-heart-a-voice-is/)

[Abigail Washburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-washburn/)

> [I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-washburn/i-sang-in-a-reggae-band-and-then-there-was-a-soul-band-where-i-sang/)

[Abigail Washburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-washburn/)

> [I spent all of my twenties feeling very angsty about trying to make a difference. I wanted to establish a touring circuit that would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-washburn/i-spent-all-of-my-twenties-feeling-very-angsty-about-trying-to-make-a/)

[Abigail Washburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-washburn/)

> [I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-washburn/i-would-still-describe-china-as-a-vast-invigorating-puzzle-that-will/)

[Abigail Washburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-washburn/)

> [China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-washburn/china-was-the-first-time-i-truly-felt-like-an-outsider-i-fell-in-love/)

[Abigail Washburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-washburn/)

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