Mandolin Quotes

I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.
Bill Monroe

High, Voice, Farmer

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.
Emma Watson

Play, Learn, Write

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

Time, Same, Cheerful

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

Love, Good, Death

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

God, Guitar, Sick

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

Time, Play, Wanted

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.
John Fogerty

Good, Song, Full

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
Noel Redding

Age, School, Playing

My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.
Brendan Gleeson

Love, Music, Down

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

Play, Song, Playing

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
Page McConnell

Mom, Dad, Guitar

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