Banjos Quotes

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

— Mark Twain

A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.

— Mark Twain

I also play fiddle, banjo and mandolin.

— Sonny Burgess

I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.

— Abigail Washburn

Banjos are funny instruments. They can get pretty irritating.

— Winston Marshall

Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo.

— Daniel Roth

The banjo am the instrument for me.

— Anonymous

There's many a good tune played by an old banjo.

— Anthony Hopkins

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

— James Dickey

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

— Michael Storm

I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little…

— Steve Martin

As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that…

— Valerie June

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.

— Steve Martin

Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.

— Carl Sandburg

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

— Waylon Jennings

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

— John Hartford

I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I…

— Abigail Washburn

I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with…

— Ketch Secor

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me…

— Jackson Browne

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

When I got out of school, I spent two years just hitchhiking around. Every time I met some old farmer who could…

— Pete Seeger

And then Earl Scruggs comes along and transforms the banjo into a virtuosic modern instrument. For the first time, the Southern banjo…

— Bela Fleck

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

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

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

. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation]…

— Laurie Anderson

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

What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking." "Uncle Tom?" "I wish there was something…

— Anonymous

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

It's horrible for someone to listen to someone learning any instrument - when I was first learning the banjo, I used to…

— Steve Martin

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

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

This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.

— Pete Seeger

Can you tell the difference between them?

— Prince Philip

Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.

— Robin Williams

It seems like everyone's listening to fiddles and banjos.

— Ketch Secor

Banjos, dobros, and acoustic guitars are not our first instruments.

— Winston Marshall

Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me.

— Rupert Grint

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

— Page McConnell

The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.

— Steve Martin