The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
Tevye: Traditions, traditions. Without our traditions, our lives would be as shaky as... as... as a fiddler on the roof!
[first lines] Tevye: A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. ...
It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.
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 mak...
He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler.
[repeated line] Tevye: On the other hand...
Chava: [to Tevye] The world is changing, Papa.
When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.
Perchik: You'll all chatter yourselves away into the grave.
Golde: [about Tevye] You can die from such a man!
Fyedka: Some are driven away by edicts... others, by silence.
I went to see Harvey again in Fiddler. Harvey's throat is getting better.
Tevye: They gave each other a pledge? Unheard of. Absurd.
[last lines] Tevye: All right children. Let's go.
Mordcha: May the Czar have his own personal plague!
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
[Tevye admires the lavishness of a butcher's home] Tevye: And all this from killing innocent animals.
Lazar Wolf: Have a drink? Tevye: I won't insult you by saying no.
