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I wasn't really an old-time breakdown fiddler.

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.'

My dad played fiddle as well.

My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played along with him.

I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.

I have just one fiddle. It works, and that's it. It has been an old friend.

I still play the fiddle every day. I'm afraid if I don't, it won't know who I am.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.