35 Banjo Quotes for You to Enjoy

As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele. Valerie June

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To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America. Rhiannon Giddens

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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters. P. J. O'Rourke

I guarantee you there's a bunch of the twentysomethings that don't know that, don't know I play banjo and bluegrass. Hank Williams Jr.

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Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would have been around. And, you know, first hundred years of its existence, the banjo's known as a plantation instrument, as a black instrument, you know? Rhiannon Giddens

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In order to understand the history of the banjo, and the history of bluegrass music, we need to move beyond the narrative we've inherited, beyond generalizations that bluegrass is mostly derived from a Scotch-Irish tradition with influences from Africa. It is actually a complex Creole music that comes from multiple cultures. Rhiannon Giddens

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I'll talk about the banjo all day long and the history of minstrel shows. Rhiannon Giddens

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