Come Quote by Chris Thile

The darned thing about mandolins is they're really hard to turn up as loud as you would need to be to play with a…

— Chris Thile

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes…

— Rita Dove

I was two years old when I saw the mandolin for the first time, and I just loved it. I just loved the sound…

— Chris Thile

You know there's this really strange mystique about Simon and Garfunkel, when they use the amazing mandolin and all the percussive stuff. It sometimes…

— KT Tunstall

At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these drums... '…

— Robbie Robertson

I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'

— Parker Posey

Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll.

— Keith Moon

My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them.

— Petra Haden

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

— John Fogerty

When I was 12 years old I discovered Bill Monroe and my dad got me a mandolin.

— Marty Stuart

It's nice knowing we're putting the banjo, the fiddle, the steel, and the mandolin back out front.

— Maddie Marlow

It's very hard to make grand, romantic gestures on a mandolin, and there are times, particularly when playing Bach, that you long for just…

— Chris Thile