Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen. — Carl Sandburg 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
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
When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking." "Uncle Tom?" "I wish there was something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for little babies... When a little baby is born into this cold world, he's confused! He's frightened! He needs… — Charles M. Schulz 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
Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of… — Edward Abbey 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
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
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
I'm working on a script right about Civil War re-enactors who go back in time to the actual Civil War. It's kind… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and… — Michael Martin Murphey Copy Share Image
I mean if it wasn't for Earl Scruggs, guys like me wouldn't be doing what we're doing. I mean, he's changed so… — Earl Scruggs Copy Share Image
My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And… — Ralph Stanley Copy Share Image
Things have been invented because of alcohol. Like the taser, okay? Yeah! The morning after pill, okay? The reach-around. Judge Judy. What… — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I remember doing "As Cool As I Am" and Steve Miller, the producer, saying "I really hear a drum loop here. I… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it’s time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo.… — Leonard Cohen 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
In a strange way, I don't have a job, so I have a lot of time on my hands. When I do… — Steve Martin 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
You look at the instrumentation, and you can't really argue that we set out with commercial aspirations. Banjos and things like that… — Ted Dwane 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
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
Banjos, dobros, and acoustic guitars are not our first instruments. — Winston Marshall 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
I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the… — Doc Watson 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
I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
When I got out of school, I spent two years just hitchhiking around. Every time I met some old farmer who could… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
![“He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio…” quote by Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/59e/pete-seeger-1942_actors_he-alan-lomax-started-right-off-trying-t_1712245.jpg)
