Fiddle Tunes

Famous quotes containing the words fiddle and/or tunes:

“If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist on your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light.... Few things would mortify me more than to see you bearing a part in a concert, with a fiddle under your chin, or a pipe in your mouth.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“They sang, but had not human tunes nor words,
Though all was done in common as before;

They had changed their throats and had the throats of birds.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)