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Banjo Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never could have foreseen the success of 'Babel.' It's not like banjo records were soaring up the charts, you know.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without a drummer, you've got that sort of running, chicken-chasing, rhythmic thing happening with the banjo in the top end - it's what gives our music a lot of its momentum, a lot of its energy.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Country Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American music - and then, through that, American history.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my god. And then I went to Africa, to the Gambia, and studied the akonting, which is an ancestor of the banjo, and just that connection to me was just immense.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really funny how I've come round to classical music around the back door with my banjo in my hand, and I love it.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was such hostility to the idea of a banjo being a black instrument. It was co-opted by this white supremacist notion that old-time music was the inheritance of white America.
- First One
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 one that white people played.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guarantee you there's a bunch of the twentysomethings that don't know that, don't know I play banjo and bluegrass.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 18, at art school, and saw this cute boy playing banjo. I was obsessed. I taught myself how to play. I listened to a lot of country and just messed around. The second song I wrote on the banjo was 'Good to Be a Man.' That what's got me signed.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved the guitar, from when I was quite little. My dad had a G banjo at the house that he played. When he had parties, my sisters always played piano, and my dad played banjo.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo and piano and sang as well, so there was all this music in my childhood.
- Hear
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- Nov 07, 2020