#fiddle

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#appalachian #doing #emotional #fiddler #folk

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

#banjo #been #down #early #far

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.' ↗

— Alison Krauss

#carolina #dance #fiddle #fiddler #got

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

#died #distressed #door #eaten #fiddle

I went to see Harvey again in Fiddler. Harvey's throat is getting better. ↗

— Rip Taylor

#better #fiddler #getting #getting better #harvey

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

— Babe Didrikson Zaharias

#bull #elephant #fiddle #hit #i

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. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#good #hard #hell #i #kid

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. ↗

— David Hockney

#designs #fiddle #i #nights #obsessive

First fight. Then fiddle. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#fight #first #then

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

#earner #felt #feminine #fiddle #how