Banjo Quote by Rhiannon Giddens Download Open image “The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on.” — Rhiannon Giddens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Banjo Chosen Instrument Music Music making Write
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
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 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
Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American music -… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
I love five-string banjo. On an electric guitar, let's say a two-hour show, it starts getting heavy right across the neck and shoulders. And… — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I didn't actually start playing the banjo until I was in high school. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I love the U.K. folk scene. In the States, nobody knows what to do with me. There's still a very narrow definition of Americana. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
For me the bare feet are grounding. I'm connected to the Earth in a way that I cannot be any other way. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
We have been fed so many false narratives, many of them racialized to deliberately feed a racist agenda. It's important to address and dig… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I had this dream like years ago. I had this dream - I wanted to be in an all-black string band. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
To sit in my concert and be uncomfortable is brave. Because you could always leave, you know? — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in history and when I looked into the settlers who came to my home state, North Carolina, I found that the… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
That was the special thing about the Carolina Chocolate Drops. We didn't want to do music full-time. We weren't looking to get rich, which… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
When I got into college, I got into operatic vocalists, like Leontyne Price. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
People seem ready for a more in-depth idea of folk music, culture and history. — Rhiannon Giddens 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
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 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
My family was always playing music; I always enjoyed it. My cousin, who is a little older than me, he started playing music, so… — Kurt Vile 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
“banjo. A plucked, fretted lute where a thin skin diaphragm is stretched over a circular metal frame amplifying the sound of the strings. The… — Liz Doherty 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
