Fiddle Quotes

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave of the sea. (William Butler Yeats)
Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony. View quote
Andrei Gromyko
It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
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. View quote
John Gay
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. View quote
Edgar Lee Masters
I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle - And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret. View quote
Edgar Lee Masters
Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight. View quote
Henry George Bohn
I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle. View quote
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle. View quote
Pietro Mascagni
Stay true to yourself. Let your voice ring out, and don't let anybody fiddle with it. Never turn down a good idea, but never take a bad idea. And meditate. It's very important to experience that Self, that pure consciousness. It's really helped me. I think it would help any filmmaker. So start diving within, enlivening that bliss consciousness. Grow in happiness and intuition. Experience the joy of doing. And you'll glow in this peaceful way. Your friends will be very, very happy with you. Everyone will want to sit next to you. And people will give you money! View quote
David Lynch
I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft. (Nora Roberts)
It's the same old tune, fiddle and guitar. Where do we take it from here? Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars; We've been the same way for years. We need to change. View quote
Waylon Jennings
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. View quote
Will Self
First fight. Then fiddle. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
Poetry I too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle, Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine. View quote
Marianne Moore
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. View quote
Edward Lear
The Pobble who has no toes Had once as many as we; When they said, "Some day you may lose them all;"- He replied, - "Fish fiddle de-dee!" View quote
Edward Lear
Don't fiddle while Byrne roams! View quote
Irving Chernev
So get down upon your knees, Fiddle with your rosaries, Bow your head with great respect, And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect! View quote
Tom Lehrer
I was three and a half years old when my father brought home a toy fiddle," playing "with which I am very happy fancies himself a street musician... I thought not and could not be happier than go from house to house with a violin ". View quote
David Oistrakh
The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play. (Tony Visconti)
I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
We cannot let this, we've never allowed any crisis from the Civil War straight through to the pandemic of 17, all the way around, 16, we have never, never let our democracy sakes second fiddle, way they, we can both have a democracy and elections and, at the same time, correct the public health. View quote
Joe Biden
Listen, don't look so depressed, old fellow. This is what all of Heine's poems are like, it's only peasants who don't laugh at them; or rather, perhaps, Calvinists. Abroad, it's the normal practice that if someone is looking really sad in the street, a horde of fat men comes running over waving checkbooks and hire him for a circus; they teach people like that to ride a bicycle that disintegrates when they try to mount it, or else make them play a stringless fiddle with a broomstick. View quote
Halldór Laxness
Koch was one of the sincere Socialists in the movement. He was a follower of Gregor Strasser, like most of the North German bosses. ‘Of course the world will become socialistic,' he said to me once when I went to see him at Konigsberg. ‘Capitalism has done for itself. Do you suppose that Hitler can stop at this reactionary beginning? My dear man, many things have to happen yet. Your Junker cousins, we shall kill the lot of them,' he added, laughing. ‘We shall sweep them all away. Peasants must take over; we are settling them on the land. The things the slack Sozis (Socialists) never carried out, we shall put through. Away with the Junkers and the captains of industry! Do you suppose we were just talking through our hats about nationalizing the banks and abolishing the stock exchange and all that?... And if that whimpering instrument Hitler doesn't squeak out our tune, we shall get another fiddle to play on. View quote
Hermann Rauschning