Fiddle Quotes
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For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea.
William Butler Yeats -
The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.
Will Self -
I still play the fiddle every day. I'm afraid if I don't, it won't know who I am.
Johnny Gimble -
Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.
Willa Cather -
Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player." That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player." How can you tell?" It's PIPING hot!" Then blow on it first!
Stephen Sondheim -
When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.
William Butler Yeats -
You fiddle lucker!' she cried.
Scott Westerfeld
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And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.
William Butler Yeats -
Lots of the bands in New Orleans couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.
Danny Barker -
At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these drums... ' They were Indian drums. And I was saying, 'But that guitar. That guitar. Girls are going to like that guitar.'
Robbie Robertson -
I want to be a tune swept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps.
Amedeo Modigliani -
My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played along with him.
Dickey Betts