Folk Instrument Quotes

Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll.

It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.

To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America.

I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar.

The thing about the banjo is, when you first hear it, it strikes many people as 'What's that?' There's something very compelling about it to certain people; that's the way I was; that's the way a lot of banjo players and people who love the banjo are.

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

i play a mean harmonica

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.

Every continent on Earth has a form of bullroarer - it's the oldest instrument known to man.

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.