Fiddle Quotes

• The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean Girls, Women, Age

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• I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

  Theodore Bikel

  Guitar, Weapons, Causes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Horse, Cat, Tails

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.66, 谷月社

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• The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

  Leonard Bernstein

  Play, Enthusiasm, Firsts

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• We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Men, Virginia

  Mark Twain (1957). “Mark Twain of the Enterprise: newspaper articles & other documents, 1862-1864”

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• I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city.

  Themistocles

  Cities, Arabia, Littles

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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

  Sea, Evil, Spy

  William Butler Yeats, Colton Johnson (2000). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Articles and Reviews: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• 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,
  "Shall we twirl down the middle?"
  O, Love's but a dance,
  Where Time plays the fiddle!

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Dance, Couple, Play

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• Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.

  Henry George Bohn

  Friendship, Feelings, Strings

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1899). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages, and a Complete Alphabetical Index”

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• The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

  Pope Paul VI

  Birthday, Age, Tunes

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• A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.

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• My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Hands, Play, Grandfather

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Dance, Ireland And The Irish, Merry

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.60, Wordsworth Editions

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• I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies & played the violin: but one of the twins died, & the other has eaten the fiddle — so all is peace.

  Edward Lear

  Baby, Doors, People

  "Letters of Edward Lear: To Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, and Frances Countess Waldegrave".

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• I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

  Gretchen Wilson

  Music, Country, Heart

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• By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with nothing.

  Ron Paul

  Freedom, Mean, Cutting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Oil, Choices, Gasoline

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• First fight. Then fiddle.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Fighting, Firsts

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.102, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My uncle Buddy MacMaster is one of the greatest fiddlers Cape Breton has ever produced, and we've produced a lot of them! His fellow fiddlers owe him a huge debt, for he has greatly influenced and inspired all of us. He makes you want to dance; he can bring tears to your eyes. Anyone who likes Cape Breton fiddle - no, anyone who likes fiddling - needs to own this album

  Natalie MacMaster

  Uncles, Eye, Tears

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• I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Elephants, Bulls, Ass

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• The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.

  Tony Visconti

  Son, Guitar, Years

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• The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle.

  Pietro Mascagni

  Thank God, Rooms, Fit

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• If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

  Shimen Ruskin

  Death, Nice, Dying

  "Fictional character: Mordcha". "Fiddler on the Roof", www.imdb.com. 1971.

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

  Nora Roberts

  Firsts, Edits

  "Nora Roberts on her MacGregor Series". Interview with Linda Mowery, allaboutromance.com.

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• I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

  David Blunkett

  Hypnosis, Mps, Cities

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