Banjos Quote by Ketch Secor Download Open image “It seems like everyone's listening to fiddles and banjos.” — Ketch Secor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Banjos Fiddle Listening Seems
It's horrible for someone to listen to someone learning any instrument - when I was first learning the banjo, I used to have to… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
It's nice knowing we're putting the banjo, the fiddle, the steel, and the mandolin back out front. — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure. — Natalie MacMaster 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 are some people who do great stuff singing and playing fiddle at the same time and doing that kind of arrangement. But I… — Sam Amidon 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
I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and… — Natalie MacMaster Copy Share Image
The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
Country music has been empowering to women. Women invented it - it was women singing to their children that built country music. The people… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
This indie rock stuff, I mean I like it, too - it pushes all my buttons: sex appeal, dissonance. It's emotive, disenchanted. — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
Country music is the combination of African and European folk songs coming together and doing a little waltz right here in the American south.… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
It’s bound to be one hell of a steel wheelin, railroadin good time…while the western country rolls by and the smoke rises blacker than… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
Like anybody else of my era, I listened to a whole lot of Michael Jackson. I guess I was probably inspired by the way… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
Because music gets you high, so it makes sense to sing about what else gets you high. — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
We never had a girl in the band. Why? Certainly there's some rippin' female players in our kind of music. We have no objection… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
Y'all drinking whiskey is probably a gregarious act. When you're not an alcoholic it's pretty fun to drink whiskey. But when you are it's… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
I think country music is a champion of women. That stuff coming out of Nashville now wants to see a woman looking good in… — Ketch Secor 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
![“There are some people who do great stuff singing and playing fiddle at the same time and doing that kind of arrangement. But I think [I don't do that] partially because I'm still a loner on the guitar and banjo.” quote by Sam Amidon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a35/sam-amidon-37109_arrangements_there-are-some-people-who-do-great-stuff_1029051.jpg)
![“I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen into a deep ink well. That's the folk music tradition. Like Pete Seeger said, 'Everyone's a…” quote by Ketch Secor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/216/ketch-secor-28477_american-music_i-enjoy-writing-songs-that-could-have-be_1676687.jpg)
