Fiddler Quotes

I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler.

I went to see Harvey again in Fiddler. Harvey's throat is getting better.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.'

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.