Carl Sandburg
Poet, Biographer
"Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen."
Banjos quotes
14 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen."
"Can you tell the difference between them?"
"Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo."
"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."
"The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past."
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