(28 quotes found)
“The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune”
Irish Sayings
“FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.To Rome said Nero: "If to smoke you turn I shall not cease to fiddle while you burn." To Nero Rome replied: "Pray do your worst,'Tis my excuse that you were fiddling first." --Orm Pludge”
Ambrose Bierce
“There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.”
Samuel Butler
“I found this old fiddle in Missouri Valley and bought it for about three bucks.”
Bob Everhart
“Leaders fiddle as France burns.”
Daily Express
“Sometimes you try to talk to him, and he's looking down and fiddling with his phone and stuff. I would have to go out of my way to talk to him. It would be me going out of my way to do that, and that's not for me. But we support each other on the hill.”
Daron Rahlves
“Hick-hop is a combination of your traditional country instruments - the fiddle, banjo, the pedal steel guitar - and then I'm running off the mouth on top of all that, ... I just started doing it because I grew up singing to country music and rap and rock, and I combined all my favorite music together and came up with this.”
Cowboy Troy
“It seems like we always play second fiddle to some of the other schools around here. That's why this year we'd like to win region and maybe surprise some people.”
Wayne Sumner
“Imagine you stay in cheap hotels where the hot water doesn't work in the shower and you have to fiddle with the knobs to fix it. Sometimes it's too hot, sometimes it's too cold. And imagine you don't stay in the same hotel twice. That's the problem we face with monetary policy. It's crude, it's a fuzzy instrument and it's applied in a different circumstance every time.”
Warren Bailey
“Last year's competition proved that there are some fantastic fiddle players in Wales and something we should be more aware of. Traditional music is a part of our heritage and this weekend will help to preserve and develop it for everyone's future.”
David Hughes
