A Quote by Mason Cooley

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

Mason Cooley

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Fiddle May Play Playing Refuse Second Those Up Wind

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

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

Leonard Bernstein

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

Robert Breault

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.

Danny Barker

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

Guy Clark

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

Leonard Bernstein

We've always had to play second fiddle to the men in European football.

Emma Hayes

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

Charles Spurgeon

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

P. J. O'Rourke

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.

Edgar Lee Masters

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.

Kiera Cass

When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days of a long time ago, Laura," Pa said. "Go to sleep, now." But Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa's fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods,… She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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.

Steven Gerrard

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

Sam Amidon

Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player." That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player." How can you tell?" It's PIPING hot!" Then blow on it first!