Random Banjo Quotes

“No one likes every style of music, but everyone loves the sound of the five string banjo.” - Larry McCabe  in the Roy Clark Complete Bluegrass Banjo Bible

“In the Southern Appalachians, no decent woman would let her husband associate with a banjo player, and certainly no father would see that fate befall his innocent daughter.  The habitat of the banjo was the moonshine still.

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[my father was] told by a mountain minister that ‘you might as well give your son a ticket to hell as give him a five-string banjo!’” - Nat Winston in Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo

“I don’t want to be the sort of person who lives in a house with two banjos.” - my wife after discovering I had bought a second banjo