Banjo Quote by Maggie Rogers Download Open image “I didn't actually start playing the banjo until I was in high school.” — Maggie Rogers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Banjo High High school School Start
When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show. — Rickey Medlocke Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Jackson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one until my… — Bela Fleck 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 came through that made you - if you're somebody like me who was, I guess, supposed to play the banjo, it made you stop in your tracks, and you couldn't do anything until you got done… — Earl Scruggs Copy Share
Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American music - and then, through that, American history. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share
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
I always loved the guitar, from when I was quite little. My dad had a G banjo at the house that he played. When… — Dave Davies 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
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
The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
It's interesting because all I want to do is make music. I want to sit in my room, play the guitar, make beats, sing...… — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
The reality of the music industry is that I was a 22-year-old college graduate who was able to walk into boardrooms and be the… — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
New York is so strange. Every time I'm there, I very rarely see someone who's dressed cool. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
It took me two years to write 'Fallingwater,' but it's one of my favorite pieces I've ever made, and it was worth waiting for. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a terrible musician. I'm a very functional musician. I play just about every instrument in a band setting, functionally. But I… — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
Ask about music growing up, I'll tell you I grew up playing classical music, and I didn't grow up in a musical household. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things worse to be than the 'Pharrell girl.' I hope that'll wear off. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
I think, as a musician, or even as a citizen of the world, I just want to be a part of something or feel… — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
“There was talk of the Centaur being moved into the elephant cages to make room for a banjo-picking Minotaur. Surrendering his meager furnishings to… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
You know, I only claim to play three instruments. My dad is a banker, but a drummer at heart; and my mom used to… — Charlie Worsham Copy Share Image
As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele. — Valerie June Copy Share Image
Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I wrote a post about wanting to buy a banjo - a $300 banjo, which is a lot of money, and I don't play instruments; I don't know anything about music. I like music, and I like banjos, and I think I probably heard Steve Martin playing, and I said, 'I could do that.' And I said to my husband,… — Mena Grabowski Trott Copy Share
My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American music - and then, through that, American history. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share
If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there. — Valerie June Copy Share Image
I'll talk about the banjo all day long and the history of minstrel shows. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
