30 Fiddle Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

You Once Gears Components Habit Break Fiddle

I have quit chewing tobacco and don't touch any lager beer, and I don't speak to the girls at all. I am getting to be a perfect hermit; my fiddle, my dog, and my gun I almost worship. Wild Bill Hickok

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Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country musicians. It has a rhythmic vocabulary that's been used by rock n' roll. It's related to spirituals, and even the American fiddle tradition. Wynton Marsalis

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You've got to be the best at what you can do - be the best at it! And the best has to be the best; you can't just fiddle around and hope. Anouska Hempel

Hope Best You Around Got Just Fiddle

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

Bull Hit Fiddle Elephant

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

You Money Wife Husband Big Earner Supporting Felt Makes How Feminine Question Big Money Than Fiddle Your Less Second

Grimes is the extreme version of doing everything yourself. I think this is impressive, because she is fiddling with things I couldn't fiddle with, all the technical stuff. I know what I want to do, but I wouldn't do it all my own, I would go crazy. This is insanely hard, to do an album by yourself. But I admire her for that. Christine and the Queens

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

Leader Minister Tried City Never Sheffield Role Fiddle

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. Edward Lear

Peace People Babies Other Distressed Eaten Had Died Door Fiddle Much Next Next Door Who Twin Twins Played Violin

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. George Jones

Song Band Kick Tell Steel Take Over Look Go Off Get Middle Break Fiddle Turnaround Production Play Thing Player

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. Guy Clark

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle. Guy Clark

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

Had He Well Another Yeah Fiddle Planet Really Play Loaned

First fight. Then fiddle. Gwendolyn Brooks

Fight First Fiddle Then

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

Old Has-Been Been Friend Just Just One Fiddle Old Friend Works

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

Day Every Day Every Know Am Still Afraid Fiddle Who Play

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. Johnny Gimble

'Swagger' would be the word for 'Dirt On My Boots.' With the real funky drum loop and the ganjo rolling down, and then the fiddles and the guitar and steel, it really took an old school style where it's fiddle, steel, guitar, and mixed it with a drum loop. Jon Pardi

Guitar School Old Word Style Down Took Boots Would Would-Be Steel Dirt Drum Loop Real Mixed Rolling Where Swagger Fiddle Then Really Old School Funky

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

Music Since Sure Been Hearing Womb Fiddle

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. Natalie MacMaster

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

Saying Great Age Guitar Thought Girl Young Indian Wow Pretty Like Drums Were Going Mandolin Young Age Fiddle Cool Thing

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. Robert Webb

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