Top 35 Fiddle Quotes

Well, I had a fiddle that I really can’t play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he’s from another planet.

Living in Cape Breton, it’s really all about fiddle music, so it’s not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it’s the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

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

Choices had become limited post ‘Crook’ and I was being offered films that had me play second fiddle. I realized that would take me nowhere, so I waited.

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

My father played fiddle and the accordion.

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.

A lot of the shows I have done, I’m often the only black guy and I have often had to play second or third fiddle. It isn’t necessarily a bad thing if it is a strong ensemble cast. But I feel people have overlooked my abilities.

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.

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

I’m much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I’ll be second fiddle. Fine. I’m happy to do it.

I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn’t put it down.

There are a lot of players who fiddle around with their towel in your shot or they get up out of their chair to see if a ball’s on when you’re about to play your shot.

It was really amazing. I mean, he’d never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.

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.

I wanted to call it ‘Experiment’ because it’s all kinds of different sounds. We have a bunch of instruments on there that are basically going extinct, like the fiddle, the steel guitar, the slide.

There was no such thing as production at Starday. We’d go in with the band, we’d go over the song, I’d look over and tell the steel player to take a break or kick it off, and I’d get the fiddle to play a turnaround in the middle.

The tendency of experts is to fiddle around with their expertise rather than trying to find new solutions.

I wasn’t getting any work as a songwriter in Texas because I was only known as a fiddle player.

I still play the fiddle every day. I’m afraid if I don’t, it won’t know who I am.

I take them both seriously – I don’t particularly want to be an ‘actor-musician.’ I want to play the great challenging parts, to be right for the part, rather than just, ‘Oh, he can play the fiddle.’

Yeah, I was a pretty good kid, you know, I was – I was- I was an overachiever and I worked very hard, played a hell of a fiddle.

I feel warm toward my Irish side, but I don’t know the country or the people. Hearing a traditional Irish fiddle, I feel very connected to Ireland, but that’s a nostalgia many people feel who aren’t Irish at all.

When I’d hear something that sounded like I could follow it – most of those big band jazz tunes are blues anyway – I would hum it and play with the fiddle while I was humming.

In my brief, home affairs, we have witnessed ministers issue countless dodgy dossiers, fiddle figures and fudge facts.

And I also think it’s a violin when you’re selling it and a fiddle when you’re buying it.

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.’

I don’t mind being a second fiddle. I don’t mind that. I don’t care whatever happens, whatever helps my team get a championship is what I want to do. Whatever helps my team win is what I want to do.

Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he’s just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn’t know, but he’s a pretty good fiddle player.

I didn’t want to walk into WWE and be someone who just does bikini matches and played second fiddle to the guys. I wanted to stand out, make people excited to see women’s wrestling, and show them we can be better than the men.

When I was a kid, my parents would play badminton, but I hardly joined them. I’d just pick up their racquets and fiddle around. Check out how the racquet was made… toss it around to see how light it was! At the time, I didn’t even know I’d play badminton.

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the ‘nothing’ that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I muck about with emails, I make coffee, I fiddle with my computer to make sure that the book I haven’t started writing is perfectly synced across all platforms and devices.

I can’t remember who said, ‘No film is completed, just abandoned,’ but I think most filmmakers will tell you that they could endlessly fiddle with their films for the next couple of decades, you know, changing things, altering things.

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