I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.
Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.
Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of classic folk songs is one of his best.
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
Uncle Dave Macon was a great balladeer and banjo player from the early part of the 19th century... He would take a social problem or something that he was looking at and make up a clever little song about it, you know, in a language everyone understood, a man of the people.
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?
I'm a huge Steven Martin fan.
One of the most quotable guys ever in country music was Grandpa Jones.
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.
