Fiddlers Quotes - Page 2

• I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of Fiddler on the Roof when I was in third grade or fourth grade. I was one of the younger kids accepted into the play, and the plays were pretty impressive, let me say.

  Lizzy Caplan

  School, Kids, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler.

  Norman Jewison

  Opportunity, Excited

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• But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Law, Long

  Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales”, p.259, OUP Oxford

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• This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Would Be, World

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes.

  Bob Dylan

  Poetry, Capes, Cages

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight into it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Air, Gone

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• It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble identifying the real problems they must deal with if they are to survive.

  Edward Goldsmith

  Nature, Real, Animal

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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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