Banjo Players Quotes

#1. Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness
how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

Yann Martel

#2. We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.

Arthur Eddington

#3. Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.

Dalai Lama

#4. [The tamed squirrels] made jolly companions but became very annoyed with her if she read too long; one would climb onto her shoulder, down her arm and sit on the page of her book 'with bushy tail outspread'.

Mary Allsebrook

#5. I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

Frank Gehry

#6. Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#7. 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.

Steve Martin

#8. When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student.

Byron Katie

#9. English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.

Pete Townshend

#10. Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

Peter Murphy

#11. I first thought maybe I'd do a banjo presentation record, where I'd play a couple of songs and get a bunch of other players to do the rest. Then I realized I had enough of my own songs to do an album of them.

Steve Martin