Banjos Quote by Carl Sandburg

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

— Gunther Schuller

The umbrella of jazz is so big and so wide . If you don't like saxophone, try a vocalist, if you don't like vocalists,…

— Gregory Porter

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

— Norman Granz

Without a drummer, you've got that sort of running, chicken-chasing, rhythmic thing happening with the banjo in the top end - it's what gives…

— Ted Dwane

I am a saxophone player.

— Nick Offerman

My music is jazz.

— Yusef Lateef

I don't know any jazz stuff. I don't know how to jam in that way. So jamming, for me, is writing a tune.

— Ryan Adams

You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's…

— Oscar Peterson

I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then I actually…

— Miles Teller

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

— Stan Getz

I'm a rock drummer. I couldn't sit down and pretend to be a jazz drummer.

— Vinnie Paul

I'm a terrible drummer; I almost cannot play the guitar nor sax nor trumpet.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto