Banjos Quote by Bela Fleck

Earl Scruggs had this thing that it wasn't just the technique or even the instrument. It was him. There was this soulful quality that…

— Earl Scruggs

Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole history of…

— Bela Fleck

I've heard of people stopping their cars, having car wrecks, all kinds of things. But most of the banjo players I know had that…

— Earl Scruggs

The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling about it…

— Steve Martin

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

— Steve Martin

There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument.…

— 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 about it…

— Steve Martin

“By the 1860s more and more banjo makers followed in Ashborn's footsteps, for, as we shall see, most often inventive banjo design, that which…

— Philip F. Gura

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

— Anthony Hopkins

“Speaking more generally about what attracted him to bluegrass banjo, he said it was 'just the sound of the instrument, and then the fire,…

— Blair Jackson

To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America.

— Rhiannon Giddens

Banjos are funny instruments. They can get pretty irritating.

— Winston Marshall