Fiddle Quotes

“Let the violin become a fiddle, boy.”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

“Well fiddle dee dee!”

— Margaret Mitchell

First fight. Then fiddle.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

You fiddle lucker!' she cried.

— Scott Westerfeld

I also play fiddle, banjo and mandolin.

— Sonny Burgess

“Fish fiddle de-dee!”

— Edward Lear

My dad played fiddle as well.

— Robert Plant

It seems like everyone's listening to fiddles and banjos.

— Ketch Secor

The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!

— Robert Browning

I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.

— Nora Roberts

There's no way I'm going to be second fiddle.

— Rex Ryan

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

— Natalie MacMaster

The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it.

— Tommy Douglas

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

— Gordie Howe

And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.

— William Butler Yeats

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a…

— Katherine Mansfield

By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and…

— Ron Paul

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing.…

— Guy Clark

Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

— Alexander Pope

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

— Phyllis Bottome

Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet.

— Guy Clark

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

— Nicholson Baker

It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain…

— Terry Pratchett

There's just a lot of people that hold on to what country means to them. I love fiddle, I love steel, but…

— Eric Church

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle…

— Robert Bork

Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead -…

— Danny Barker

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears; Like the notes of…

— John Gay

I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or…

— Emily Giffin

For 'Singin' in the Rain,' I bought most of the costumes - the 'Fit as a Fiddle' costumes and the 'Make Them…

— Debbie Reynolds

I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than…

— Will Self

I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing.…

— Steven Price

If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture…

— Anonymous

My dad plays the fiddle. He stopped playing for years. He was playing when I was a baby, and then he stopped…

— Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh

It's not that I literally think I'm a fearie. It's just that I feel so different from most people. And this idea…

— Francesca Lia Block

The lingering laughter fled from his eyes as he realized that he'd given himself away. "Where's Fiddle now?" "Safe and cared for.…

— Hilari Bell

“From inside the tavern came the sounds of a fiddle being tuned, various plucks and tentative bowings, then a slow and groping…

— Charles Frazier

I have no ear for music. When I attend a concert, I endeavor gamely to follow the sequence and relationship of sounds…

— Vladimir Nabokov

My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I…

— Pete Seeger

“Mrs. Porter was from Virginia and had a smooth-as-cat-fur way of speaking. She taught me how to say, “Fiddle-Dee-Dee,” just like Scarlett…

— Shannon Celebi

I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city.

— Themistocles