That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.
I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.
At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
The time to right the wrong ticks with precission.
My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.
Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.
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.
That is morality,I make myself imagine that it is personal.
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.
No man is a man until he has been a soldier.
My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
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.
At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these drums... ' They were Indian drums. And I was saying, 'But that guitar. That guitar. Girls are going to like that guitar.'
Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country world that I grew up listening to and that first drew me in. And then I always try to find somewhere for a bluesy guitar sound, because that's also w...
Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
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.
Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal.
I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when...
