Top 172 Fiddle Quotes & Sayings

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

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

First fight. Then fiddle.

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

I also play fiddle, banjo and mandolin.

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

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

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.'

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

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

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

O, Love's but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle! See the couples advance - O, Love's but a dance! A whisper, a glance, "Shall we twirl down the middle?" O, Love's but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle!

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

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

It's nice knowing we're putting the banjo, the fiddle, the steel, and the mandolin back out front.

I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.

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

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.

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.

My dad played fiddle as well.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

You fiddle lucker!' she cried.

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.

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

I have just one fiddle. It works, and that's it. It has been an old friend.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am not going to fiddle taxes. I pay my accountant a fortune to look after me.

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

My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.

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.

The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

My father played fiddle and the accordion.

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

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

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

Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.

I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay

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

There's no way I'm going to be second 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.

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.

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