Ability Quote by John Fogerty

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

— Keith Moon

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

— Parker Posey

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

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

There's something cool about playing 'Tempted' and then picking up the mandolin and playing 'Dark as a Dungeon' and standing on the classics. It's…

— Marty Stuart

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

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

— Petra Haden

I really love how the andante from the "A minor Sonata" sounds on the mandolin.

— 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 don't know how it got around that I play a lot of instruments. I really don't. I play the guitar and the mandolin.

— Marty Stuart

I'm not a good guitar player.

— Adam Jones

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