Banjos Quote by Daniel Roth Download Open image “Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo.” — Daniel Roth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Banjos Community Dropping Dropping out
To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America. — Rhiannon Giddens 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When I got to NYU, I had applied based on playing folk music, and they said, 'You're the banjo girl,' so I thought ,'OK,… — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we… — Johannes Rau Copy Share Image
I'm not a good musician, but I did my homework and I knew this was my way out of profound poverty. — Haim Saban Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me. — Rupert Grint Copy Share Image
When I was very young my mother sang to me at bedtime and my dad would often play the banjo or fiddle in the… — Rory Block Copy Share Image
When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar. — Michael Storm Copy Share Image
I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time… — Pete Seeger 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
There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and music gathering… — Michael Martin Murphey Copy Share Image
I remember doing "As Cool As I Am" and Steve Miller, the producer, saying "I really hear a drum loop here. I want to… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
I mean if it wasn't for Earl Scruggs, guys like me wouldn't be doing what we're doing. I mean, he's changed so many people's… — Earl Scruggs Copy Share Image
I've heard of people stopping their cars, having car wrecks, all kinds of things. But most of the banjo players I know had that… — Earl Scruggs 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
My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin. — Page McConnell Copy Share Image
