Fiddle Quotes

Fiddle Quote of the day

I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps.

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

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

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.

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it.

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?

This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.

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

The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.

I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle.

Its impossible to go onto the Tardis set and not play with things and fiddle with dials.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with.

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

First fight. Then fiddle.

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

It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.

I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.

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

Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.

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

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.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

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

I'm playing second fiddle to Justin Bieber - Bieber Fever is sweeping our house, and my girls have made it clear I'm no longer their favourite man.

When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.

Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

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.

Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.

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

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears; Like the notes of a fiddle, she sweetly, sweetly Raises the spirits, and charms our ears.

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.

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

Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.

I also play fiddle, banjo and mandolin.

If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever.

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

You fiddle lucker!' she cried.

I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.

And I know I’m about to play second fiddle to another woman, as I should. But my love for you will never change, Maxon.