Top 32 Quotes About Mandolin
#1. Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.
John Hartford
#2. I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.
Bill Monroe
#3. Karma is simply the law of cause and effect in action. All moments and occurrences are caused by other moments and occurrences that preceded them in an endless, causal chain.
Frederick Lenz
#4. It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten.
Martha Albrand
#5. Stories full of metaphors are by writers who play the language like a mandolin for our entertainment, novelists,
Yann Martel
#6. Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition.
Frederick Sommer
#7. My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
Page McConnell
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.
Kendrick Lamar
#11. I use both instruments with their strengths in mind. Mandolin - no sustain and attack of the right hand, for rhythm. Fiddle - use sustain of the bow and the ability to slide the non-fretted notes, like singing.
Sam Bush
#12. I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.
Emma Watson
#13. I like human stories. I like stories about situations we can relate to. I like movies like 'Ordinary People' or 'Terms of Endearment.' Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, boyfriends, girlfriends. The stories to me that are worth telling are almost simple ones, but very relatable.
Chris Evans
#14. Bind me-I still can sing-
Banish-my mandolin
Strikes true within-
Slay-and my Soul shall rise
Chanting to Paradise-
Still thine.
Emily Dickinson
#15. It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to start the day. Covering her head with a pillow, she reached out blindly and urgently, desperate to shut the damn thing off.
Naomi Ragen
#16. I'll never feel as comfortable singing as I do playing. The mandolin is my real voice. My actual voice is sort of my secondary voice, but I love to do it and I love giving people relief from playing with a little bit of singing.
Chris Thile
#17. I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch on the next song; I'd play piano ... we'd play mandolin.
Bob Livingston
#18. The three principal samskaras have to do with sex, money and power. In all those countless incarnations that one goes through in the religious practice, the avoidance is tremendous. We brand those things as evil.
Frederick Lenz
#19. You know, I only claim to play three instruments. My dad is a banker, but a drummer at heart; and my mom used to teach piano lessons when she was younger. So I can play some piano, play a little drums, and fake the bass - but banjo, mandolin, and guitar are my thing.
Charlie Worsham
#20. 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
#21. That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.
John Fogerty
#22. When Jack White called and wanted me to do a video and play mandolin with The Raconteurs, I didn't know anything about The Raconteurs at that time.
Ricky Skaggs
#23. Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll.
Keith Moon
#24. 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
#25. Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.
John Steinbeck
#26. The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
Rita Dove
#27. I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.
Chord Overstreet
#28. At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
Noel Redding
#29. I wrote all my songs on my main instruments, and the songs I would record in my bedroom were just acoustic guitar, mandolin, and sometimes bass. I really like the texture the mandolin added to my music, but my fingers were too big to play it ... I could only do little riffs and whatever.
Shamir
#31. The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards ... so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin.
Steve Goodman
#32. I really love how the andante from the "A minor Sonata" sounds on the mandolin.
Chris Thile
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