Back in time Quote by Ed Helms

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.

— Steve Martin

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

There's many a good tune played by an old banjo.

— Anthony Hopkins

I'll talk about the banjo all day long and the history of minstrel shows.

— Rhiannon Giddens

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

— Maggie Rogers

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

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

The banjo am the instrument for me.

— Anonymous

“Tell me this, pal, why isn't everybody sitting on a fence in the moonlight playing a banjo? That's all I want to know.”

— Vincent Lawrence

I was a child actor in 'Deliverance,' but not the banjo player. It was my dad's big movie as a director, and at the…

— Charley Boorman

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

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