Banjo Quote by Rhiannon Giddens

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

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

— Rhiannon Giddens

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

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

— Maggie Rogers

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

— Rickey Medlocke

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

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

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

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 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

I play a replica of a banjo from the 1950s. It was the first commercial-style banjo in the United States so it's the first…

— Rhiannon Giddens

I was reared on folk music.

— Rufus Wainwright