Fiddle Quotes

Although practice swings Can be helpful things, Twere better, indeed, not take any Than to fiddle and fret And before playing get Exhausted from taking too many.

A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.

It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well.

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

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

For 'Singin' in the Rain,' I bought most of the costumes - the 'Fit as a Fiddle' costumes and the 'Make Them Laugh' Donald O'Connor outfits and the 'Good Morning, Good Morning' clothes we danced in.

The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle you must, for all your life.

I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to the feeling of being second-fiddle to a friend.

I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.

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

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

The Swedish folk music - I can't hear any connection between my music and fiddle tunes, but I guess since I grew up with that, kind of, Swedish tone or harmony.

My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular?

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

The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.

Then she took up the bow and began to play. The tone was warm and deep, storied with layers of age.