15 Mandolin Quotes for You to Enjoy

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. Mary Schmich

Love Death Good Grief Good Things Gift Mother Energy Strangers Visitation Followed Tenderness Feel Renewed Surprising Foreseen Friends Mandolin Sweetness Deeper Play Things Desire Sibling

I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice. Bill Monroe

High Voice Tenor Mandolin Farmer

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin. Emma Watson

Write Also Learn Mandolin Want Really Novel Play

I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo. Dickey Betts

Seven Ukulele About Had Around Banjo Mandolin Then Started Playing

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

It couldn't have been more nerdy or bizarre, playing the clarinet. But I studied classical clarinet, went to the high school for music and art in New York City, and then found the guitar and the mandolin after it. Christopher Guest

Music Art Guitar School High Bizarre Clarinet City Nerdy Classical High School More Studied New Been York New York Mandolin New York City After Then Found Playing

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all. John Fogerty

Good Song Ability Mandolin Full Player Extent

When I was 12 years old I discovered Bill Monroe and my dad got me a mandolin. Marty Stuart

Me Old Monroe Got Years Discovered Mandolin Bill Dad

I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!' Parker Posey

Wind Learned How Mandolin Mighty Play

I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge. Fernando Botero

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin. Michael Stipe

God Guitar Sick Other He Picked Instruments Himself Up Mandolin Being Decided Pop Teach Pop Star Peter Star Among

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin. Noel Redding

Age School Nine Onto Mandolin Then Playing Violin

My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's a bluegrass musician. It's always been a part of the family. Timothy Simons

Family Poet Sister Musician Photographer Brother Writer He Part Always Been Bluegrass Mandolin Little Little Brother Dad Player