Chance Quote by William Butler Yeats

And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.

— William Butler Yeats

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

— William Butler Yeats

“Have you ever listened to folk music? Let's face it, a lot of folk music is all about dead sailors, mad witches, rape and…

— Marie Browne

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

— Pope Paul VI

All are not merry that dance lightly.

— George Herbert

“Down a winding cobbled street from the church trips the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, the most evocative and strangely dramatic of all morris dances,…

— A.A. Gill

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud…

— Martin Luther

O, Love's but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle! See the couples advance - O, Love's but a dance! A whisper, a glance,…

— Henry Austin Dobson

“Fill your tall goblets with white wine and red, And sing brave songs of gallant love and true, Wearing soft robes of emerald and…

— Winifred Holtby

Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.

— John Milton

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music..

— John Betjeman

“Good music is a king or a queen; when it visits a place, all rise to their feet!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan