Banjo Quote by Bela Fleck Download Open image “They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true.” — Bela Fleck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Banjo Be happy Happy Only Think True
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 Copy Share Image
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 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 quality that… — Earl Scruggs Copy Share Image
English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
When you hear a banjo through stutter edit, it's the coolest thing you ever heard. — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn. — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going… — Bela Fleck 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 primitive instrument.… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
There is a tendency to want to isolate a little bit, from people that might look at me from a fan position, because it's… — Bela Fleck 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 history of… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more. — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
I doubt anybody would have pushed me [on the music]. When I was at Sony nobody ever gave me any creative suggestions on the… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
“There was talk of the Centaur being moved into the elephant cages to make room for a banjo-picking Minotaur. Surrendering his meager furnishings to… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
You know, I only claim to play three instruments. My dad is a banker, but a drummer at heart; and my mom used to… — Charlie Worsham Copy Share Image
As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele. — Valerie June Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I wrote a post about wanting to buy a banjo - a $300 banjo, which is a lot of money, and I don't play… — Mena Grabowski Trott Copy Share Image
My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American music -… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'll talk about the banjo all day long and the history of minstrel shows. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image