Banjo Quotes

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

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

Usually this music is played only by a harp. If there's any accompaniment it's a harpsichord or guitar. When we played in Ireland, my five string banjo was a curiosity. - Bob Frost

This is 'St. Louis Tickle' I'm playing. This is a loud old banjo. They don't make them like this anymore. Here. Feel that. - George Schmidt

Things don't exist simply because you believe in them, thus sayeth the almighty creature in the sky! -Dr. Banjo. - Futurama

They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true. - Bela Fleck

There's a real organic quality to it. It comes right down to the fundamentals of wood and steel. A lot of acoustic guitars, mandolins, banjos, fiddles and steel strings. You're not going to see a lot of drums. You're not going to see huge PA systems. - Jeff Black

There are some people who doubt the African origin of the banjo. But even a cursory look at these instruments kind of puts to bed any doubt. - Matt Morelock

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

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