Fiddle Quotations

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.'

There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.

There was no such thing as production at Starday. We'd go in with the band, we'd go over the song, I'd look over and tell the steel player to take a break or kick it off, and I'd get the fiddle to play a turnaround in the middle.

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.

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

When I was a kid, my parents would play badminton, but I hardly joined them. I'd just pick up their racquets and fiddle around. Check out how the racquet was made... toss it around to see how light it was! At the time, I didn't even know I'd play badminton.

Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn't know, but he's a pretty good fiddle player.

My interest in his new toy, the Theremin, isn't very big. It simply does not fit into my way of playing music. I do not want to fiddle around with my hands in the air.

I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.

My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.

Last year's competition proved that there are some fantastic fiddle players in Wales and something we should be more aware of. Traditional music is a part of our heritage and this weekend will help to preserve and develop it for everyone's future.

I think the biggest thing I remember was there are so many animals in this state named Kirby, and if somebody had a cow or a horse, they named it Herbie. I was always second fiddle to Puck, and I loved every minute of it.

I still play the fiddle every day. I'm afraid if I don't, it won't know who I am.

I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I muck about with emails, I make coffee, I fiddle with my computer to make sure that the book I haven't started writing is perfectly synced across all platforms and devices.

It is a live album from 40 shows recorded on the 2003 and 2004 tour. I have always tried to keep the same band together but this line-up is the best and still includes Steve Wickham on fiddle who I met when he was doing a Sinead O'Connor demo in 1985.

We have a longer window to get it right. We sketch out scenes and can see how they work before we commit to them. And we can go back and fiddle with them.

You can fiddle enough with the system to (make the office) look better,

We're a roots band with a heavy fiddle base. We're definitely a good drinking band. If you like good music, like to dance and have a good time, come see us.

When I'd hear something that sounded like I could follow it - most of those big band jazz tunes are blues anyway - I would hum it and play with the fiddle while I was humming.

We can't make a decision over replacements just yet, we have to give it a couple of days. Simon Jones could wake up and be fine in two days, while if the injection works Vaughan could be alright by next week. We'll just have to fiddle things about for the moment.

We're not looking to fiddle around too much, but they both have qualities that we can take advantage of.

We shouldn't be playing second fiddle to South Korea or anyone else,

Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.

I started the Fiddler's Hall of Fame in 1985 and I am running out of room. The fiddle is the most difficult instrument in country music because it's akin to the sweet sound of the violin.

This one should be lots of fun, ... especially hosted by Paul Woodiel, a man with an inquisitive musical spirit. Paul is a classical and theatrical performer and an expert in ancient and traditional fiddle music. Every year, Paul and I tackle another idea, after which Paul finds the musicians and tells the story to his eager audience.

The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune

Once you get in, you don't fiddle with keys, you don't do anything. You just step on the brake and press the start button to go.

Indian companies are not satisfied playing the second fiddle anymore. They are competing big with the global IT companies.

I found this old fiddle in Missouri Valley and bought it for about three bucks.

I had seen his two daughters, but I was more interested in fiddle music at that point. As time went on, I became more interested in his daughters than in his fiddle playing.

I'm not fiddling, ... You give me an all-pro quarterback, and we won't have to fiddle around. I don't like to do this.

It used to be that condos played second fiddle to the prewar co-ops. Now, there's a lot of status attached to living in the latest great condominium building or high-rise. People think it's cool ? it's like owning art.

I gave them a mandolin, fiddle and bass and God done the rest.

First fight. Then fiddle.

It seems like everyone's listening to fiddles and banjos.

We got our start at this little club back in Nashville at this place called the Fiddle and Steel Guitar Bar on Mondays and Tuesdays. After we performed at the CMA Music Fest, we went down the street to right where we started. Those people were freaked out! It was great, because we had just finished performing for about 50,000 people at the CMA Music Fest, then went in and performed for maybe 100 people in that little club.

In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. [In the house of the fiddler all fiddle.]

You fiddle lucker!' she cried.

The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!

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