80 Fiddle Quotes
Following is our list of fiddle quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about playing second fiddle.
Famous Fiddle Quotes
The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle. — Leonard Bernstein
A borrowed fiddle does not finish a tune. — Zimbabwean Proverbs
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. — English Proverbs
To play the violin for the buffalo to listen to. — Thai Proverbs
Mary was fond of dancing, so she found a fiddler for her husband — Greek Proverbs
Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody. — Rumi
The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm — Leonard Bernstein
We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency. — Mark Twain
The violin - that most human of all instruments. — Louisa May Alcott
I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps. — Amedeo Modigliani
A violin should be played with love, or not at all. — Joseph Wechsberg
Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along. — E. M. Forster
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. — Vanessa Mae
The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin. — Steve Goodman
I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion. — Lucas Grabeel
Short Fiddle Quotes
- Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ. — Billy Sunday
- The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. — Sigmund Z. Engel
- I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city. — Themistocles
- I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words. — Theodore Bikel
- Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one. — Duke Ellington
- The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it. — Tommy Douglas
- The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle. — Pietro Mascagni
- This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle. — Guy Clark
- Its impossible to go onto the Tardis set and not play with things and fiddle with dials. — Jenna Coleman
- The necessary fiddling about and moving things can be greatly facilitated by a bit of forethought. — Carroll Smith
Second Fiddle Quotes
I want to do a movie, but it has to be the right movie, whether it's independent or a studio movie. I'm much more open to being a supporting actor. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it. — Robin Williams
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
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. — Will Self
Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all. — Mason Cooley
Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is. — Willa Cather
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. — Robin Williams
The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius. — Robert Breault
When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.' — Barbara Corcoran
It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well. — Charles Spurgeon
If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. — Phyllis Bottome
People Writing About Fiddle
More Fiddle Quotes
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 have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun. — Robert Louis Stevenson
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. — Andrei Gromyko
If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas. — Hal Abelson
The best thing is I can say 'I'm working' when I'm having a cup of tea and a cigarette and fiddling on the guitar. — Ben Howard
Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix. — Rob Pike
I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle. — John Denver
FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat. — Ambrose Bierce
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? — Katherine Mansfield
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it. — Robert A. Heinlein
The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod. — Voltaire
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.' — Robbie Robertson
The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away. — William Cowper
One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic. — Jonathan Brandis
For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea. — William Butler Yeats
My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe. — Brendan Gleeson
And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance. — William Butler Yeats
So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption. — Sherwood Boehlert
Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight. — Henry George Bohn
I'm a little disappointed I didn't get fiddled with by a TSA agent at the airport. I feel unwanted. Maybe next time. — William Regal
I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart. — Sam Walton
I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country. — Gretchen Wilson
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. — Edmund Wilson
A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall. — T. S. Eliot
By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with nothing. — Ron Paul
Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. — English Proverbs
It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with. — Coleman Barks
There's just a lot of people that hold on to what country means to them. I love fiddle, I love steel, but I don't think it should be a rule that it has to be used in every song. I think that's not what defines or makes country music. — Eric Church
He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy white cloud and listening to somebody playing on a harp, a picture of Heaven he had seen numerous times in one form or another. Even if it was that way, his personal preference would have run more to the fiddle. — Elmer Kelton
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