Fiddle Quote by Duke Ellington Download Open image “Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.” — Duke Ellington ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiddle Mistress Music Music is Play
Music is something I've always loved and have always come back to like a mistress. — Tom Sandoval Copy Share Image
I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure. — Natalie MacMaster Copy Share Image
The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
I’d say that music is my wife, acting's my mistress – I like 'em both, so I hope I don’t have to choose. — Mark Salling 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. But I… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
Id say that music is my wife, acting's my mistress, I like 'em both, so I hope I dont have to choose. — Mark Salling Copy Share Image
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . . . the… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a… — Duke Ellington 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 I call an American standard, an American original. ... I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. ... I don't need time, I need a deadline. ...There are two kinds of music. Good… — Duke Ellington Copy Share
“New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillac's, and the beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. [In the house of the fiddler all fiddle.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight. — Henry George Bohn Copy Share Image
When I was very young my mother sang to me at bedtime and my dad would often play the banjo or fiddle in the evening. I knew music was important and central to everything, most particularly it had a powerful healing value and created a sense of peace and security. This stood out to me as I always felt the… — Rory Block Copy Share
Oh, I'm being eaten By a boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor, And I don't like it--one bit. Well, what do you know? It's nibblin' my toe. Oh, gee, It's up to my knee. Oh my, It's up to my thigh. Oh, fiddle, It's up to my middle. Oh, heck, It's… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share
Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure. — Natalie MacMaster 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 us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. You may ask 'Why do we stay up there if it's so dangerous?' Well, we stay… — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share
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
He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a… — Elmer Kelton Copy Share Image
There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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