I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps... — Amedeo Modigliani Copy Share Image
I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. [In the house of the fiddler all fiddle.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever. — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
And I also think it's a violin when you're selling it and a fiddle when you're buying it. — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
I wasn't getting any work as a songwriter in Texas because I was only known as a fiddle player. — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
“I wish I could play fiddle by firelight. That last one had been the wish of a guy named Nero. Just went… — Kiernan Kelly Copy Share Image
My interest in his new toy, the Theremin, isn't very big. It simply does not fit into my way of playing music.… — Klaus Schulze Copy Share Image
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies & played the violin: but one of the twins died,… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
I want to do a movie, but it has to be the right movie, whether it's independent or a studio movie. I'm… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“It had been a gift from Cansrel, her fiddle. One of his strange kindnesses, for he’d never had patience for her music.… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around… — Elmer Kelton Copy Share Image
Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
There are some people who do great stuff singing and playing fiddle at the same time and doing that kind of arrangement.… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of… — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm being eaten By a boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor, And… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
We all know of course, that we should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
You know one scene I always think about is in 'The Godfather', when Marlon Brando's in the hospital. Al Pacino arrives there… — Garret Dillahunt Copy Share Image
There are things about how a note sounds on a violin that are really analogous to the human voice - you have… — Bruce Molsky Copy Share Image