American Quote by Rhiannon Giddens

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.

— Steve Martin

To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America.

— Rhiannon Giddens

When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my…

— Rhiannon Giddens

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

There was such hostility to the idea of a banjo being a black instrument. It was co-opted by this white supremacist notion that old-time…

— Rhiannon Giddens

I had a fascination with the roots of African American music. That would have been my first education in music. I had a real…

— Hozier

I didn't actually start playing the banjo until I was in high school.

— Maggie Rogers

The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on.

— Rhiannon Giddens

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

— Michael Storm

I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came…

— Doc Watson

When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show.

— Rickey Medlocke

I'll talk about the banjo all day long and the history of minstrel shows.

— Rhiannon Giddens