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They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true. -- Bela Fleck
The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. -- Steve Martin
The energy in the banjo, and the beef in the bass. They're good tools to express yourself. -- Ben Lovett
My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. -- Dave Davies
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside? -- Jackson Browne
In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs. -- Steve Martin
English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records. -- Pete Townshend
I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east. -- Burl Ives
I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music. -- Doc Watson
It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel. -- Karen Russell
I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface. -- Bela Fleck
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 one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago. -- Alan Jackson
I first thought maybe I'd do a banjo presentation record, where I'd play a couple of songs and get a bunch of other players to do the rest. Then I realized I had enough of my own songs to do an album of them. -- Steve Martin
The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a vey enlightening place to be as a kid because of all the music and dancing, and my dad played banjo; my sisters played piano and sang. -- Dave Davies
I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar. -- Jackson Browne
Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.' -- Les Dawson
I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there's some connection between visual images and music. -- Robert Crumb
I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes. -- Jonny Greenwood
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 to certain people; that's the way I was; that's the way a lot of banjo players and people who love the banjo are. -- Steve Martin
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing. -- Vince Gill
When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy. -- Steve Martin
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 to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing. -- Steve Martin
My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my interest in that kind of music comes from him constantly listening to this stuff. He's taught me the history of it. It's remarkable how these young kids are now turned on to more traditional old-time music. -- Sam Shepard
When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it. -- Abigail Washburn
I wrote a post about wanting to buy a banjo - a $300 banjo, which is a lot of money, and I don't play instruments; I don't know anything about music. I like music, and I like banjos, and I think I probably heard Steve Martin playing, and I said, 'I could do that.' And I said to my husband, I said, 'Ben, can I buy a banjo?' And he's like, 'No.' -- Mena Grabowski Trott
The banjo am the instrument for me. -- Grandpa Jones
I also play fiddle, banjo and mandolin. -- Sonny Burgess
This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender. -- Pete Seeger
Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo. -- Daniel Roth
I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl. -- Abigail Washburn
There's many a good tune played by an old banjo. -- Anthony Hopkins
Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten. -- Robin Williams
A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't. -- Mark Twain
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't. -- Mark Twain
My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin. -- Page McConnell
Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me. -- Rupert Grint
I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19. -- Elle King
A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo -- John Hartford
Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling. -- Waylon Jennings
My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself. -- Carl Sandburg
When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar. -- Michael Storm
The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful. -- Steve Martin
I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. -- Steve Martin
As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele. -- Valerie June
If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there. -- Valerie June
The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo. -- Mark Twain
Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure. -- Valerie Sayers
I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life. -- Abigail Washburn
The thing about the banjo," says Martin, "is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as 'What's that?' There's something very compelling about it to certain people. -- Steve Martin
I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did magic tricks, cards tricks and I played the banjo. -- Steve Martin
I happened to take a photo, and there was my wife, my dog and my banjo, all in the same shot - and I thought, "Oh, that's like a family portrait right there." -- Steve Martin
I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music. -- Ketch Secor
The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don't know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it sounded like blue grass, they'll buy it if it's selling. -- Warryn Campbell
I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music -- Doc Watson
A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then itâ??s time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. Iâ??m wanted at the traffic-jam. Theyâ??re saving me a seat. -- Leonard Cohen

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