Banjo Quote by Hank Williams Jr

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

I guarantee you there's a bunch of the twentysomethings that don't know that, don't know I play banjo and bluegrass.

— Hank Williams Jr

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

When I got out of school, I spent two years just hitchhiking around. Every time I met some old farmer who could play banjo,…

— Pete Seeger

A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.

— Mark Twain

I'm working on a script right about Civil War re-enactors who go back in time to the actual Civil War. It's kind of a…

— Ed Helms

I play banjo, and in Britain, it's easy to get away with playing banjo because you don't often see it on U.K. stages. In…

— Winston Marshall

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo…

— Jackson Browne

I'm interested in all kinds of art. I draw and paint and don't know how to play the banjo, but I do play the…

— Ellar Coltrane

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

— Mark Twain

Earl Scruggs is the guy who really made that leap with using three fingers in a rotating fashion to create this fast rippling sound…

— Earl Scruggs

I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about it.

— Earl Scruggs

He [Earl Scruggs] was really cool because he was very quiet, and he wouldn't say much, but then he would come out with a…

— Earl Scruggs

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

It's made a lot of people richer from hearing Earl Scruggs. And I just think we're all very lucky to have him in the…

— Earl Scruggs