Kurt Vile

My family was always playing music; I always enjoyed it. My cousin, who is a little older than me, he started playing music, so I wanted to, also. I asked my dad for a guitar, and he got me a banjo, so that was my introduction to playing. I played it like a guitar. I had a few lessons, learned out a few chords, and figured it out right away.

American Musician

Jonny Greenwood

I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

English Musician

Dave Davies

The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a vey enlightening place to be as a kid because of all the music and dancing, and my dad played banjo; my sisters played piano and sang.

British Musician

Vince Gill

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

Hank Williams Jr.

I love five-string banjo. On an electric guitar, let's say a two-hour show, it starts getting heavy right across the neck and shoulders. And I like to be able to flip it off and grab the fiddle, and that's just the way I do it.

Jackson Browne

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

Abigail Washburn

I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.

Maggie Rogers

When I got to NYU, I had applied based on playing folk music, and they said, 'You're the banjo girl,' so I thought ,'OK, I'm the banjo girl.

Rhiannon Giddens

The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on.

Winston Marshall

Banjos are funny instruments. They can get pretty irritating.

The term 'banjo' is commonly associated with country, folk, and bluegrass music genres.

Musical Context

Banjos have roots in African-American culture and have influenced various music styles.

Cultural Significance

Notice the banjo's round body called the 'pot' and the strings stretched across the 'drumhead'.

Physical Features

In engineering, 'banjo' can refer to machine parts resembling the instrument's shape.

Machine Context

When used in engineering, 'banjo' is a technical term not understood outside the field.

Technical Term

'Banjo' parts are used in industries like automotive and hydraulics for specific purposes.

Industry-Specific

 And he played his bluegrass style of music, but near the end of the concert, he played the old timing style of banjo picking that came from Africa, along with the banjo. It's called claw-hammer style, that he had learned from his mother and grandmother. I fell in love with that. I went up to him and said, how can I learn that?

David Holt: The stories...

 Appalachia and I certainly have wonderfully fond memories of making moonshine and plank and banjos in Appalachia alright have to play the the places that really plug my heart strings with Patagonia the remote areas in Patagonia northern China the the

125th Anniversary...

 It's an old dance tune. And you may notice that the banjo that I'm holding looks a little different than banjos you might be used to seeing or the one I just played, for example. And this banjo is sort of an earlier model.

"East Virginia" / "John...

 And I won it -- I reached all of these people, and I had tens of thousands of people reading about my life every day. And then I wrote a post about a banjo. I wrote a post about wanting to buy a banjo --

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 Margaret's banjo roll he too is slowly saying goodbye but I got the sense watching Asha cleared the space in her room and leaped to get her chair Asha who is at the threshold of her life

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 Now during that time -- those 17 years -- I walked and I played the banjo and I painted and I wrote in my journal, and I tried to study the environment by reading books.

John Francis: Walk the...

 the music and then as applause dies down I got all my timers I got 14 timers all supposed to kill at the same time when I go in and I have a CD with all banjos playing

How One Man's Amazing...

 Thank you, thank you. Robbie Thank you. I'm Robbie Mizzone. I'm 13, and I play the fiddle. This is my brother, Jonny. He's 10, and he plays the banjo.

Teenaged boy wonders...

 I had a plan, and I never ever thought it would have anything to do with the banjo. Little did I know

Abigail Washburn:...

 On guitar is my 15-year-old brother Tommy. On banjo is 10-year-old Jonny. He's also our brother.

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