Quotes About Fiddle Music

#1. 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

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

Natalie MacMaster

#3. From time to time he would feel that acute surge go over him, like his blood was too hot all of a sudden, dying away into that warm unhappy feeling that fiddle music gave him.

William Faulkner

#4. We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

Mark Twain

#5. I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

Johnny Gimble

#6. I think angels definitely offer all the imaginative possibilities that vampires do, and I think they've actually been popular in Western culture for longer than vampires have been. I hope they become a part of the culture again in a new way.

Danielle Trussoni

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

Colleen J. McElroy

#8. 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

#9. A waltz begins, that floating, sweet rhythm. The fiddle is plaintive. A few minutes ago she was at least pleasantly contented. Now certain of the notes dip into her like ladles and come up full of loneliness. The people in the room recede. They are strangers, every one.

Anna Keesey

#10. She opened for me, every part of her available and soft for me. Except her heart, I thought. That she had closed to me, if it had ever been open.

R.K. Lilley

#11. There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.

Natalie MacMaster

#12. Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.

Duke Ellington

#13. I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

Gretchen Wilson

#14. Then she took up the bow and began to play. The tone was warm and deep, storied with layers of age.

A.S. Peterson

#15. When diamonds' role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the diamond industry established the Kimberley process in order to keep "blood diamonds" out of international trade.

Peter Singer

#16. I play the fiddle ... I'm not much to listen to yet, but we got no mice in our house.

Annie Proulx

#17. We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. The Swedish folk music - I can't hear any connection between my music and fiddle tunes, but I guess since I grew up with that, kind of, Swedish tone or harmony.

Gustav Ejstes

#19. If we do not worship God, God will not be the lesser for it. But we will.

Kevin DeYoung

#20. If Nero had played a better fiddle, Rome might never have burned.

Marty Rubin

#21. You got to think a musical instrument is human or, anyway, alive ... You take a fiddle now, we say it has a neck, and in the human neck what do you find? Vocal cords like strings, where the sound comes from.

Annie Proulx

#22. It was a haunting tune, unresigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind and say goodbye.

Kristin Cashore

#23. I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.

Frank Fairfield

#24. There's just a lot of people that hold on to what country means to them. I love fiddle, I love steel, but I don't think it should be a rule that it has to be used in every song. I think that's not what defines or makes country music.

Eric Church

#25. Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.

Danny Barker

#26. Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.

Christopher Lasch

#27. And yes, I let him fuck me because it's been so bloody long I've almost forgotten what my prick's for.

J.L. Merrow

#28. When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.

Gene Krupa

#29. I don't argue, waste of time and effort. I listen to opinions, though

Linda Howard

#30. Let the violin become a fiddle, boy.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#31. As one old gentleman put it, Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.

Robert Fulghum

#32. My interest in his new toy, the Theremin, isn't very big. It simply does not fit into my way of playing music. I do not want to fiddle around with my hands in the air.

Klaus Schulze