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I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice. BILL MONROE
I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!' PARKER POSEY
I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look giganti... FERNANDO BOTERO
My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin p... TIMOTHY SIMONS My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
PAGE MCCONNELL At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
NOEL REDDING I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on o...
BOB LIVINGSTON It's only November, and I can't remember the last time I was warm. If someone had a gun to my head a...
JESSICA MARTINEZ I wrote all my songs on my main instruments, and the songs I would record in my bedroom were just ac...
SHAMIR I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one s...
BOB LIVINGSTON
When Jack White called and wanted me to do a video and play mandolin with The Raconteurs, I didn'... RICKY SKAGGS
I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice. BILL MONROE
I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew... MARY SCHMICH This is without question the most famous mandolin ever played.
KYLE YOUNG
I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin. EMMA WATSON
The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the sa... RITA DOVE
Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country... HUNTER HAYES I'm not good at watching stuff that I'm in at all. I should stop. I shouldn't watch some...
ELLEN PAGE Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcol...
DR. JOHN I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banj...
DICKEY BETTS He didn't have the aura of a rock icon. He was just a regular guy. To have the bass player walk in t...
CHRIS SHIFLETT We mourned the loss and the uncertain future of the most well-known mandolin in the world.
KYLE YOUNG One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Eve...
MANFRED MANN
I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've don... ROBERT WYATT
I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'... NICKI MINAJ At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is grea...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON One day, I'm gonna make a song with John Mayer.
TY DOLLA SIGN I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a...
RAY MANZAREK
You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no g... JULIE ANDREWS I'm not a good guitar player.
ADAM JONES
Sitting next to Olivia Newton-John, I was like, 'Do not sing one song from Grease.' That'... CAROLINE RHEA When Nolan gets on the mandolin and Eric gets on the slide guitar, the sound changes. We have a lot ...
LAURENCE KNIGHT I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right pia...
BENMONT TENCH I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I th...
RONNIE O'SULLIVAN
Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country... HUNTER HAYES This is without question the most famous mandolin ever played. The historical importance and emotion...
KYLE YOUNG I'm a good Catholic girl in the way that Madonna is. In the sense that I'm not that good at ...
HEATHER GRAHAM
That's the beauty of this mandolin. It's the Holy Grail. Most musicians think it's in the New Testam... VINCE GILL I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in ...
ROBERT HUNTER
I don't think I'm a good host. I'm not a good host. I'm terrible at hosting. That... CHELSEA HANDLER My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I ...
BRENDAN GLEESON I'm not particularly good at anything. I'm not an incredible guitarist or piano player or so...
BENNY BLANCO
If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with t... ISAIAH THOMAS
Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instrum... MICHAEL STIPE
I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a so... LEAH LABELLE Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to...
BALTASAR GRACIáN I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. I...
CHORD OVERSTREET
My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and ma... SAM SHEPARD It was like trying to eat one potato chip. I've picked up the mandolin and feel like I can go to any...
EILEEN MCLANE
I'm the person that I always was, but in terms of how I approach my living, I'm not the same... IYANLA VANZANT
I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good... VICTORIA BECKHAM You know, I only claim to play three instruments. My dad is a banker, but a drummer at heart; and my...
CHARLIE WORSHAM Who here has been to Hawaii? It's so boring. What's an overactive mandolin player supposed to do in ...
CHRIS THILE
I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at persp... GARRY TRUDEAU I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'...
BRETT YOUNG God has blessed me to be where I'm at today. All the trials and tribulations I faced throughout ...
DONALD DRIVER
Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it'... CHARLI XCX I'm confident a good Liam Smith beats a good John Thompson.
LIAM SMITH At the end of the day, all I can be is me. I'm not John Cena. In my 30 years, I've never bee...
ROMAN REIGNS John has the ability, he is a slippery player, he is able to use good speed and he has a great chang...
JOE ALBERICI
I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary. KID CUDI I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not t...
TAKESHI KITANO As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thin...
NATE RUESS I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everyt...
CARMELO ANTHONY I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, &...
FEFE DOBSON
My mentality has always been, If I'm not the best at something, then I might as well be the best... GIGI HADID I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I ...
KEVIN DURANT That's my contribution - running a sound, healthy company that serves millions of customers well...
JAMIE DIMON I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!
RANDY JACKSON I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the sin...
DAN AUERBACH
There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of... RAY LEWIS My general idea of the world is that I'm not different at all because I'm a girl. So I get b...
CAM
I'm not good at being a picture-perfect pop star, happy all the time. If I'm having a bad da... CHARLI XCX
Obviously I'm not the best singer; obviously I'm not the best piano player or the best songw... TOBIAS JESSO, JR.
'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT
To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny vi... PSY I'm pretty good at thinking about everything - all of my consequences - before I make a decision...
HILARY DUFF
I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written ... ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.
JOHN KRUK
In anything, I always give my all. I'm not a good loser. LILY JAMES Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I...
CAROL BARTZ
I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used ... ACTION BRONSON I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly...
SIMON COWELL (Hook is) a really good player and just took the game over in the fourth quarter. She has my full re...
MIKE EAVES
If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm h... ICE T My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm trans...
ELIE SAAB I'm not a great actor - let's face it. I don't have a great deal of scope. There are cer...
STEVE MCQUEEN I do talk a lot - far more than my husband - but I'm not good at talking to a lot of people. I e...
BILLIE WHITELAW I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE
I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song. SUSANE COLASANTI
It couldn't have been more nerdy or bizarre, playing the clarinet. But I studied classical clari... CHRISTOPHER GUEST
I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at in... NICOLAS CAGE
I'm just not very good at being happy all the time. CHARLI XCX
I have never been a serious person.... I am not serious at all because existence is not serious. It ... BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH
When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there... LUKE BRYAN
In my life, I'm just looking for that life of integrity that my father had. I have a good heart;... JOHNATHON SCHAECH A great epiphany: I found out that I'm totally confused and I'm good with that. I'm cons...
RONNIE DUNN
I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don&#... JANE PAULEY
I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their ab... JOHN ROBINSON Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in...
LIONEL RICHIE
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... 
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... 
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... 
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... 
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... 
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... 
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... 
The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi... 
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... 
I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... 
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... 
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw... 
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... 
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... 
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... 
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot... 
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. 
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. 
I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al... 
Get off your butt and join the Marines! 
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ... 
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i... 
Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. 
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. 
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. 
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. 
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte... 
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else. 
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. 
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i... 
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir... 
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. 
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y... 
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it! 
With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ... 
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi... 
Old friends are best. 
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. 
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? 
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all... 
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ... 
I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ... 
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part. 
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress... 
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. 
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. 
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do. 
I can never consent to being dictated to. 
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles! 
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim... 
You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what yo... 
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. 
My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches. 
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the pre... 
There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism. 
If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just g... 
It's a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you're not rec... 
I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra... 
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens. 
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id. 