Quotes about fiddlers (9 Quotes)


    You'll see that we don't promote only the best players. We promote all levels of people and playing and stages. So, if you enjoy just coming and listening or just want to see something different come to the fiddlers, we are a family.

    The best sitting room at Manor Farm was a good, long, dark-panelled room with a high chimney-piece, and a capacious chimney, up which you could have driven one of the new patent cabs, wheels and all. At the upper end of the room, seated in a shady bower of holly and evergreens, were the two best fiddlers, and the only harp, in all Muggleton. In all sorts of recesses, and on all kinds of brackets, stood massive old silver candlesticks with four branches each. The carpet was up, the candles burnt bright, the fire blazed and crackled on the hearth, and merry voices and light-hearted laughter range through the room.



    Country and Western music It's contrived calculated, commercial music. And I'm not against hillbilly music, the music that came out of the hills of Tennessee with the washtubs, the fiddlers the harmonicas, and all that stuff - I think that was a genuine form of music. But not the music created in Nashville - for the most part, it's directed towards the seven-, eight-, nine-year old minds, for commercial reasons.


    He was one of the greatest, most creative fiddlers in country and bluegrass music history.

    I started the Fiddler's Hall of Fame in 1985 and I am running out of room. The fiddle is the most difficult instrument in country music because it's akin to the sweet sound of the violin.

    Vernon Fiddler made a big goal by keeping it simple, taking it to the net and driving. Fiddler's line was strong. The other two lines had their moments. We just need more moments from them.




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