Fiddle Quote by Sam Amidon Download Open image “If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever.” — Sam Amidon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiddle Ifs Picks Play
Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure. — Natalie MacMaster Copy Share Image
In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As soon as I choose the timbre of an instrument, that dominates how I compose. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive. — Yann Tiersen 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
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 Copy Share Image
I always say that to compose is to think. Playing is good, it's useful, but it's how your intellect puts the ideas together that… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them near me,… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places. — Sam Amidon 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
I'm not somebody that has an encyclopedic knowledge of ballads and could sit around a fire and sing songs for three hours. I basically… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
The whole thing of singing on my own has been accidental and random. I sang a huge amount as a kid, and I was… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
I'm not really a folk singer, but I love the music and there's certain lines that will get just stuck in my head, and… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
When I do older folk songs, I'm not doing them because they're old. I have no interest in reviving or continuing a tradition. I'm… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
If I said who I was influenced by, it would be really weird and pretentious because it would be people who have nothing to… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great. — Sam Amidon 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… — Rory Block Copy Share Image
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… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
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… — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
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
