Banjos Quote by Carl Sandburg

We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar.

— Maybelle Carter

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 love five-string banjo. On an electric guitar, let's say a two-hour show, it starts getting heavy right across the neck and shoulders. And…

— Hank Williams Jr

The banjo am the instrument for me.

— Anonymous

As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

— Adam Jones

I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one until my…

— Bela Fleck

I am a trombone player, and that was my first instrument.

— Johann Johannsson

When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show.

— Rickey Medlocke

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

— Rhiannon Giddens

I was a guitar player first off.

— Boz Scaggs

I didn't actually start playing the banjo until I was in high school.

— Maggie Rogers

We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time

— John Green