Goodreads quotes, without source, Twain as saying “A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.” On Twainquotes: . . . The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themsleves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils. But give me the banjo. Gottschalk compared to Sam Pride or Charley Rhoades, is as a Dashaway cocktail to a hot whisky punch. When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo! - "Enthusiastic Eloquence," San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle, 23 June 1865 That sound to me like a man who enjoys listening to banjo music. Bob Stewart