Banjos Quote by Bela Fleck

There was such hostility to the idea of a banjo being a black instrument. It was co-opted by this white supremacist notion that old-time…

— Rhiannon Giddens

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

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

— Steve Martin

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

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

— Bela Fleck

“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

Banjos are funny instruments. They can get pretty irritating.

— Winston Marshall

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

— Robin Williams

Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would…

— Rhiannon Giddens

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

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

— Anthony Hopkins