me too.
a great banjo player quote i’ve heard is IIRC from Kevin Burke:
“When they’re great, they’re good.”
Heh.
One of the better banjo players out there IMHO is L. Nugent’s sister. I forget her name, now, but I heard a recording of her playing a couple of reels, and the sheer emotion of it was an eye-opener. Before that, I’d never thought that a banjo could be used to express emotion. She did it, and big time. Must run in the family, I guess!
Margaret McElhlom?
http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/sites/CCE/education/Treoir/Tr1-1998/sean.htm
If he has only one sister, that’d be her.
Nanohedron, the trouble with:
I’ve had other banjo players say the same thing! It does have a skin head, after all.
… is that if you called a Banjo a Skin Head & someone shouted pass the Skin Head, bald guys like me would be on the move all the time! 
As for Kevin Burke’s quote about Banjo players:
“When they’re great, they’re good.”
As a former Banjo player, who turned, or some might say ‘moved up’ to the Fiddle, I can see where Kevin’s coming from. At least if he’s talking about the Tenor Banjo.
If, however, your talking Frailing, then I would beg to differ. But then you don’t see many Frailing Banjos in ITM sessions … 
I shudder to think. Let us all take a moment to pray for kind Heaven’s continuing intervention in that wise.
“Skin head”, though…more grist for the mill if I want to take a poke at banjo and bodhrán players. Wry nudges about them making political statements come to mind…
“So, like, where’s the Bodhrán Supremacy tattoo?”
They wouldn’t get it. sigh