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
Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a… — Les Dawson 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
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
There are some people who do great stuff singing and playing fiddle at the same time and doing that kind of arrangement.… — Sam Amidon 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Some people can't physically hear things. A kid that listens to Metallica or something can't hear that, because he's filled himself up… — Elvis Costello 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
Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling… — Valerie Sayers Copy Share Image
I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little… — Steve Martin 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
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
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