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
Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take… — Anonymous 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
My mother played a little bit of the old time clawhammer. She tuned the banjo up and picked one tune for me,… — Ralph Stanley 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
Banjos are used in Celtic, English folk music and obviously American music. But not that much in pop music. But it's more… — Winston Marshall 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
Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with… — Dave Haywood 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 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 was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I wrote a post about wanting to buy a banjo - a $300 banjo, which is a lot of money, and I… — Mena Grabowski Trott 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
Earl Scruggs had this thing that it wasn't just the technique or even the instrument. It was him. There was this soulful… — Earl Scruggs Copy Share Image
I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Being a part of the crowd with incredible musicians onstage summoning the muse and delivering that to us - doesn't matter if… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand… — Steve Martin 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
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
The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give… — Mark Twain 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
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
I happened to take a photo, and there was my wife, my dog and my banjo, all in the same shot -… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I… — Burl Ives 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
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
I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have… — Jonny Greenwood 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
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
She dumped me for the quarterback after she'd played my body like a banjo. So Sad." "I bet" "I'm serious. I was… — Nalini Singh 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
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
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
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
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
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
Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know,… — Rhiannon Giddens 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
![“There are some people who do great stuff singing and playing fiddle at the same time and doing that kind of arrangement. But I think [I don't do that] partially because I'm still a loner on the guitar and banjo.” quote by Sam Amidon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a35/sam-amidon-37109_arrangements_there-are-some-people-who-do-great-stuff_1029051.jpg)
![“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)
