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I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome. -- James Dickey
This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender. -- Pete Seeger
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't. -- Mark Twain
I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words. -- Theodore Bikel
Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen. -- Carl Sandburg
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
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
Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself. -- Beck
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
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 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
Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.... -- Edward Abbey
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
I feel sorry for little babies... When a little baby is born into this cold world, he's confused! He's frightened! He needs something to cheer him up... The way I see it, as soon as a baby is born, he should be issued a banjo! -- Charles M. Schulz
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 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 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
When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo! -- Mark Twain
It seems like everyone's listening to fiddles and banjos. -- Ketch Secor

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