Steve Martin Banjo Quotes

#1. I happened to take a photo, and there was my wife, my dog and my banjo, all in the same shot - and I thought, "Oh, that's like a family portrait right there."

Steve Martin

#2. There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

Seth Godin

#3. 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

#4. But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position. As revolutions in communications and technology have broken down barriers across the world, it has given more power to both our competitors and our enemies.

Barack Obama

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

Steve Martin

#6. I don't like to try very hard. Most of the time it's just jeans, a T-shirt and Converse trainers. Casual, comfortable and boyish is how I'd describe my look. The way people wear clothes makes them stylish, rather than the clothes themselves.

Jessica Hart

#7. The good butterflies started to beat the shit out of the bad butterflies.

Kristen Ashley

#8. Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.

Giorgio Armani

#9. It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel.

Karen Russell

#10. I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.

Steve Martin

#11. I never liked the language of Henry Miller. I don't think pornography has added to our sensual life.

Anais Nin

#12. When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it all in. I didn't know you were supposed to just stand up and tell jokes. Essentially, that's what my act became: those five elements - except I dropped the poetry.

Steve Martin

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.

Marcus Aurelius

#16. In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

Steve Martin

#17. I wanted to be kicked and hit and bruised up and beaten. It became something that was an absolutely necessary part of every day for me.

Jon Bernthal

#18. Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'

Regina King

#19. We all understood why Chelsea was important. In

Stephenie Meyer

#20. One of the reasons I wrote 'The Fall' is that climbing's more than a sport, it's a way of life. When you're in it, it's all you think about.

Simon Mawer