I guess the first time I played around Washington, D.C. was at a place called The Famous. That was the first place I played, I believe.
Ralph StanleyI've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
Ralph StanleyI don't - I don't like that style, myself. I never did like Elvis's singing, but there was millions that did.
Ralph StanleyMy first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And she had - her - the hog - the mother - they called the mother a sow - of a hog. And she had some pigs. Well, the pigs were real pretty, and I was going to high school and I was taking agriculture in school. And I sort of got a notion that I'd like to do that, raise some hogs. And so my aunt had this old banjo, and my mother told me, said, which do you want, the pig or a banjo? And each one of them's $5 each. I said, I'll just take the banjo.
Ralph Stanley