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How to use the word banjo in a Sentence?

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He wants to pay me for saving his life, i was like Richard you don't have to give me anything. You made me a banjo. That's priceless. – Wesley Pandy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
One of the biggest triumphs of African-American music is the banjo, the banjo took over the world. That means we helped create America's music. Not blues. Not jazz. America's music, period. – Rhiannon Giddens	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's really funny how I've come round to classical music around the back door with my banjo in my hand, and I love it. – Rhiannon Giddens	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would have been around. And, you know, first hundred years of its existence, the banjo's known as a plantation instrument, as a black instrument. – Rhiannon Giddens	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my god. And then I went to Africa, to the Gambia, and studied the akonting, which is an ancestor of the banjo, and just that connection to me was just immense. – Rhiannon Giddens	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American music - and then, through that, American history. – Rhiannon Giddens	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
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. – Jackson Browne	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
Montanans are much more likely to want to hang out and vote for the guy with the banjo than the guy who made millions of dollars in software. – Lee Banville	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I wrote 20 or so banjo tunes, but Carter was a better writer than me. – Carter Stanley	Found on Reuters 7 years ago

He wants to pay me for saving his life, i was like Richard you don't have to give me anything. You made me a banjo. That's priceless.

– Wesley Pandy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

One of the biggest triumphs of African-American music is the banjo, the banjo took over the world. That means we helped create America's music. Not blues. Not jazz. America's music, period.

– Rhiannon Giddens

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's really funny how I've come round to classical music around the back door with my banjo in my hand, and I love it.

– Rhiannon Giddens

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would have been around. And, you know, first hundred years of its existence, the banjo's known as a plantation instrument, as a black instrument.

– Rhiannon Giddens

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my god. And then I went to Africa, to the Gambia, and studied the akonting, which is an ancestor of the banjo, and just that connection to me was just immense.

– Rhiannon Giddens

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American music - and then, through that, American history.

– Rhiannon Giddens

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

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.

– Jackson Browne

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Montanans are much more likely to want to hang out and vote for the guy with the banjo than the guy who made millions of dollars in software.

– Lee Banville

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I wrote 20 or so banjo tunes, but Carter was a better writer than me.

– Carter Stanley

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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