Enthusiasm Quote by Leonard Bernstein

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.

— Leonard Bernstein

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

— Duke Ellington

Im one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. Im just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling…

— Eugene Ormandy

Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and…

— Natalie MacMaster

“Let the violin become a fiddle, boy.”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling…

— Eugene Ormandy

I use both instruments with their strengths in mind. Mandolin - no sustain and attack of the right hand, for rhythm. Fiddle - use…

— Sam Bush

I love the tone of old, non-amplified, real acoustic fiddles, and Wood Violins are the closest thing I have found to that sound. They…

— Martie Maguire

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

— Natalie MacMaster

My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played…

— Dickey Betts

The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.

— Robert Breault

I'm really just a frustrated violinist.

— Krzysztof Penderecki