Jackson Browne
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin. PAGE MCCONNELL STEVE MARTIN I wrote a post about wanting to buy a banjo - a $300 banjo, which is a lot of money, and I don't... MENA GRABOWSKI TROTT I'm interested in all kinds of art. I draw and paint and don't know how to play the banjo, b... ELLAR COLTRANE I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but ... DOC WATSON You know, I only claim to play three instruments. My dad is a banker, but a drummer at heart; and my... CHARLIE WORSHAM I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. S... BURL IVES I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banj... DICKEY BETTS As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure t... VALERIE JUNE My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I ... BRENDAN GLEESON SAM SHEPARD I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that ... ALAN JACKSON The banjo because it's loud and shiny. RYAN SHUPE FLIP WILSON Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present f... BOBBY MCFERRIN VINCE GILL I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I Jenny was the emcee. Marty would come out playing a plastic banjo, and they would do stage plays. JOHN CASEY Jenny was the emcee. Marty would come out playing a plastic banjo, and they would do stage plays, JOHN CASEY I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It c... BELA FLECK HUNTER HAYES STEVE MARTIN We have tears in our eyes ROALD DAHL I got in this business because of Steve Martin playing a banjo with an arrow through his head. You h... DAN WHITNEY STEVE MARTIN PETE TOWNSHEND The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 2... DEVAL PATRICK I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I ... ABIGAIL WASHBURN ERIC IDLE John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of s... MADISON SMARTT BELL If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right t... VALERIE JUNE ROBIN WILLIAMS LEONARD COHEN Usually this music is played only by a harp. If there's any accompaniment it's a harpsichord or guit... BOB FROST For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clap... NEIL JACKSON JON BON JOVI Hick-hop is a combination of your traditional country instruments - the fiddle, banjo, the pedal ste... COWBOY TROY STEVIE NICKS RITCHIE BLACKMORE LES DAWSON PETE TOWNSHEND My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I ... OSCAR ISAAC ISLA FISHER I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl. ABIGAIL WASHBURN JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA POST MALONE RYAN REYNOLDS BARRY WHITE BEN LOVETT DAVE DAVIES RITA RUDNER I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point... CARRIE MAE WEEMS MICHAEL KORDA I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backya... TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN I got my first pilot lessons for my 16th birthday, ... I was scared the first time I tried it, but I... ERIC HOFFMAN I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go t... ALAN J. HEEGER STEVE MARTIN When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents... DAVID HENRIE The decision came about because I was tired of sitting around on my birthday, so I said, 'Why not go... RAY BENSON That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't... ALAN KING So my parents, particularly my mother, she noticed that I seemed to be interested, so on my seventh ... HERBIE HANCOCK PARIS HILTON RICK RIORDAN RICK RIORDAN RICK RIORDAN When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his... VALERIE JUNE I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my f... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE ALESSIA CARA My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day. VICTOR CRUZ STEVEN WRIGHT STEPHEN WRIGHT He just went to bed and never woke up. That was a tough day... my brother's birthday, too. I was nin... STAFFAN KRONWALL I went to the store to buy a race car for my son's birthday, and the next thing I know I was working... BOB RICE CHARLES M. SCHULZ CHAZ BONO He came to our door and was saying, 'My wife needs medication, I need money,' ... He was shaky and ... LEE SULLIVAN It was a very weird happening. But it feels good that I had so many friends from my home town here t... JOANNIE ROCHETTE ACE FREHLEY I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brot... SHERIDAN SMITH STEPHEN CHBOSKY I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I w... ADAM FERRARA I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends... DARREN ROBINSON When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ... HENRIKH MKHITARYAN I spoke to my dad on my birthday and his advice was to go out and enjoy myself. TOMAS SCHECKTER My little boy said to me it would be nice if I got a hat-trick to celebrate my birthday, so I dedica... ANDY COLE I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN RODNEY DANGERFIELD I haven't won on my birthday since college, so it's good to play hard and get a win by double figure... CHRIS BOSH MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte] SEX AND THE CITY MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
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In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd ... 
My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and ma... 
My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interes... 
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may b... 
Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie... 
When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally ev... 
English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banj... 
He plays a great banjo, too. 
Steve was that little boy in 'Deliverance' who played the banjo, 
A sip of wine, a cigarette,
It was about 25 years ago that he came to see me play in a bar and had the audacity to say 'I'm gonn... 
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrot... 
I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hea... 
Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, ... 
My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn'... 
I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up. 
On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a dra... 
I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you kno... 
I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother fo... 
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 19... 
The energy in the banjo, and the beef in the bass. They're good tools to express yourself. 
The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a... 
I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy you... 
I once attended a birthday party where Danny Kaye dropped in to entertain the birthday boy and his g... 
I'm really excited to meet you and I know tomorrow's your birthday. I just wanted to show you my hou... 
The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standin... 
This is the Wilderness School. 'Where the Kids are animals 
Butch hesitated. "Annabeth's okay. You gotta cut her some slack. She had a vision telling her to com... 
I first picked up a guitar when I was ten years old; my parents surprised me with it for my tenth bi... 
For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them f... 
For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them f... 
I feel sorry for little babies... When a little baby is born into this cold world, he's confused! He... 
I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff... 
I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do wit... 
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight... 
I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ... 
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he want... 
Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'... 
My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc... 
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain. 
And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstr... 
Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, peopl... 
A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything. 
Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they kn... 
Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world... 
You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels. 
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. 
The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity. 
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. 
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. 
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. 
The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part. 
I do a lot of stuff. I mean, you know, charity work. 
Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne. 
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. 
You never grow old until you've lost all your marvels.