Banjo Music Quotes

#1. The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don't know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it sounded like blue grass, they'll buy it if it's selling.

Warryn Campbell

#2. My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.

Dave Davies

#3. The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a vey enlightening place to be as a kid because of all the music and dancing, and my dad played banjo; my sisters played piano and sang.

Dave Davies

#4. My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!

Erma Bombeck

#5. You are no better than anyone else and no one is better than you.

John Wooden

#6. I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music.

Ketch Secor

#7. Selfish action imprisons the world. Act selflessly, without any thought of personal profit.

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#8. Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected

Rick Yancey

#9. We are all but borrowed energy

Perry Covington

#10. When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

Michael Storm

#11. 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.

Robert Crumb

#12. Past age fifty-five, I experienced the advancement of exquisite fabric choices, paint distinctions that were celestial in scope, yet so many other man-made objects, such as people, became drab, redundant and boring.

Carol A. Elliott

#13. If we must
both
be right.
we will
lose
each other.

Nayyirah Waheed

#14. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.

Martin Luther

#15. 'A guitar would work.' But then again so would a flute. A horn. A banjo. A tambourine. A trombone. The drums. When you're mixing music and love, there really is no bad combination." -Elvis Ruby

Nan Marino

#16. I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

Alan Jackson

#17. I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

Jonny Greenwood

#18. The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.

Terry Eagleton

#19. I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music.

Doc Watson

#20. If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.

Nick Turse

#21. I'm a guy who shakes your hand and will never let you down. I have a code of honor and I don't lie.

Jerry Weintraub

#22. Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.

Randy Schekman

#23. 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

#24. A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

Mark Twain

#25. Now that I'm retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies.

Dan Fouts

#26. It's a cold night out tonight. The Padres better warm up real good because it's stiff out there.

Jerry Coleman