Banjos Quote by Anonymous

When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky,…

— Mark Twain

If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.

— Valerie June

I first thought maybe I'd do a banjo presentation record, where I'd play a couple of songs and get a bunch of other players…

— Steve Martin

Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

It's nice knowing we're putting the banjo, the fiddle, the steel, and the mandolin back out front.

— Maddie Marlow

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

— Alan Jackson

There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I…

— Bela Fleck

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'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

— Otis Rush

I'm really into music, I'm really into art, and I want to keep that fire alive.

— Devin Townsend

Banjos are funny instruments. They can get pretty irritating.

— Winston Marshall

The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on.

— Rhiannon Giddens