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Banjo Quotes
One instrument, plenty of stories.
These banjo quotes describe using the instrument to work through feelings in the moment. See our Guitar quotes for related instruments.
- 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.
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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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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.
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The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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