Banjo Music Quotes

The first musical sound I ever heard was from a banjo. My father played, and I was an infant in a crib, and something just stayed with me from those early days.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

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!

Banjos are funny instruments. They can get pretty irritating.

The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'

We came out of bluegrass, so we could play.

I love a band that has a banjo, that does group harmonies and yells out the word 'Hey' or 'Woo.' I live for it.

The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on.

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?

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.

I loved Steve Martin when I was younger, in the '70s.

'Hee Haw' was a huge influence on me.

I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time in my life, I found there was music in my country that you never heard on the radio, and you didn't hear on the juke boxes, and in theaters. I fell in love with it, especially the long-necked banjos.

Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.

I was always into bluegrass as a kid. Basically, I like music that has a basic simple structure and that has a lot of emotion and feel. Bluegrass and other old time music fits the bill, as well as what became punk - they both kind of have a similar framework.

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.

I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.

Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.

I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!

I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that.

I have noticed that these pop bands will play our hillbilly songs when they cain't eat any other way!

When you hear a banjo through stutter edit, it's the coolest thing you ever heard.

John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style.

We never could have foreseen the success of 'Babel.' It's not like banjo records were soaring up the charts, you know.