Banjos Quote by Pete Seeger Download Open image “This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.” — Pete Seeger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Banjos Force Hate Surrender Surround
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 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
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 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
I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. — Steve Martin 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
My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there. — Pete Seeger 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
It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So the peasantry… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save… — Pete Seeger 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
