Banjos Quotes

41 quotes by 33 authors

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words. — Theodore Bikel
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside? — Jackson Browne
There's many a good tune played by an old banjo. — Anthony Hopkins
Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I… — Edward Abbey
There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and music gathering those… — Michael Martin Murphey
I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for… — Jackson Browne
I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one… — Alan Jackson
Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me. — Rupert Grint
The banjo am the instrument for me. — Grandpa Jones
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf… — Vince Gill
I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that… — Jonny Greenwood
I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along,… — Doc Watson
I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for… — Bela Fleck
A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo — John Hartford
This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why… — Eddie Condon
The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo. — Mark Twain
I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do… — Abigail Washburn
I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl. — Abigail Washburn
Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling. — Waylon Jennings
Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself. — Beck

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