Banjos Quote by Michael Storm

Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me.

— Rupert Grint

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo.

— Daniel Roth

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

— Mark Twain

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

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

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

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

— Page McConnell