Quotes About Banjos

#1. Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.

Beck

#2. Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with heavy beats, so to have that Mumford record and hear banjos being used is so cool.

Dave Haywood

#3. Visit an elf outpost and you practically hear the banjos in the background.

M.L. Brennan

#4. You get to tour some of the historic homes and listen to ghost stories."
"This is what people do in small towns?"
"We could either do that or go sit on my porch, chew some tobacco, and play banjos.

Nicholas Sparks

#5. Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses ...

Edward Abbey

#6. It seems like everyone's listening to fiddles and banjos.

Ketch Secor

#7. I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

James Dickey

#8. I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

Theodore Bikel

#9. Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.

Carl Sandburg

#10. Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo.

Daniel Roth

#11. Do as I have taught you, and you will stay alive.

George S. Patton

#12. I also play fiddle, banjo and mandolin.

Sonny Burgess

#13. It is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#14. A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

John Hartford

#15. Can you tell the difference between them?

Prince Philip

#16. To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost unknown in this day.

Neil Gaiman

#17. The banjo am the instrument for me.

Grandpa Jones

#18. It was always women who did the choosing, and men's place was to be grateful if they were lucky enough to be the chosen ones. Joseph Anton

Salman Rushdie

#19. How can love's spaciousness
be conveyed in the narrow
confines of one syllable?

Diane Ackerman

#20. I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

Juliette Binoche

#21. There's many a good tune played by an old banjo.

Anthony Hopkins

#22. The bell from the restaurant doors chimed behind them and Blake walked out. He stopped beside Holiday. "Is everything okay?" He cut his gaze to Burnett.
Burnett, eyes ablaze, pulled Holiday to his side.
"That depends," said Burnett, "on how quickly you get your ass away from here.

C.C. Hunter

#23. I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.

Salman Rushdie

#24. Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me.

Rupert Grint

#25. Life learned early on to recognize itself.

Lynn Margulis

#26. It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

A.A. Milne

#27. For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition.

Trevor Treharne

#28. I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity.

Emily Dickinson