Banjo Instrument Quotes

#1. To desire revival ... and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#2. I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.

Halston Sage

#3. The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.

Steve Martin

#4. This was immense, and they thus took final possession of it. They

Henry James

#5. I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.

Vince Vaughn

#6. Perfection can be overdone; a rift in a lute relieves melodious monotony, and when discords cease to amuse, one can always have the instrument mended or buy a banjo.

Robert W. Chambers

#7. Sometimes at night
when the moon is almost
full and my hands go
numb from writing, I cleanse
myself of her poisoned love.
I welcome the water, the
inevitability of
death and embrace
the long painful road out
of love.

A.P. Sweet

#8. The banjo am the instrument for me.

Grandpa Jones

#9. I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction
if a house is falling upon you, for instance
one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.

Bela Fleck

#11. I will always treasure the privilege of writing the 'Sports of The Times' column.

George Vecsey

#12. I don't like critics; I really don't like them. I think most of them are ignorant and don't have a clue!

John Rzeznik

#13. It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.

Ed Stoppard

#14. The banjo is such a happy instrument
you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.

Steve Martin

#15. Blondes do have more fun. But sometimes I look in the mirror and still feel like I'm wearing a wig.

Emma Stone

#16. But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

Hesiod

#17. And then Earl Scruggs comes along and transforms the banjo into a virtuosic modern instrument. For the first time, the Southern banjo style becomes the identity of the banjo, and everything from before is wiped off of people's consciousness by the power of that explosion.

Bela Fleck

#18. There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.

Bela Fleck

#19. My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

Carl Sandburg

#20. We're all monsters. We're all careless and cruel in the end.

Mackenzi Lee