Quotes About Fiddle

aloneness is a bad fiddle I play against my own / burning

For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance.

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.

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.'

And I also think it's a violin when you're selling it and a fiddle when you're buying it.

This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.

How do I feel today? I feel as unfit as an unfiddle, And it is the result of a certain turbulence in the mind and an uncertain burbulence in the middle. What was it, anyway, that angry thing that flew at me? I am unused to banshees crying Boo at me. Your wife can't be a banshee— Or can she?