Banjo Quotes

• When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Playing
  • TV Show
  • Country Music

• My mother played a little bit of the old time clawhammer. She tuned the banjo up and picked one tune for me, and it just become natural to me. When she picked it, I just started and picked it, too.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • My Mother
  • Picked
  • Banjo

• I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.

  

  Dickey Betts
  • Playing
  • Ukulele
  • Mandolin

• My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And she had - her - the hog - the mother - they called the mother a sow - of a hog. And she had some pigs. Well, the pigs were real pretty, and I was going to high school and I was taking agriculture in school. And I sort of got a notion that I'd like to do that, raise some hogs. And so my aunt had this old banjo, and my mother told me, said, which do you want, the pig or a banjo? And each one of them's $5 each. I said, I'll just take the banjo.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • School
  • Mother
  • Hog

• I play banjo, and in Britain, it's easy to get away with playing banjo because you don't often see it on U.K. stages. In America, people know when you're a good banjo player, so I was really nervous about playing out there. But we actually went down really well.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • America
  • Playing
  • Banjo

• Some people can't physically hear things. A kid that listens to Metallica or something can't hear that, because he's filled himself up with this stuff, he physically can't hear a banjo or a harp or something.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • People
  • Hear
  • Metallica