I need good Mandolin quotes

[TACEF]

I need a few good mandolin quotes. Any suggestions?

[Ken Sager]

Go to MandoFest next weekend with a tape recorder. You'll have ample opportunity to interview dozens, if not hundreds, of mandolins yourself and get it straight from the source.

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[TACEF]

Thanks Ken. By the way, love the message under your forum name. It is a little guitar.

[Ken Sager]

It's easier to agree with folks who say "Look at that big man playing that little guitar" than it is to explain how horrifically wrong they are.

I recall somewhere, even posted on the cafe, a source of Bill Monroe quips. Maybe search for something like that. Otherwise, I have nothing of value to offer you.

Good luck in your search,
Ken

[mandowannabe]

Do you mean like "Mandolin is Italian for out of tune?"
or "This mandolin was tuned when I bought it so why try to re-tune it?" G.B.

[Lee]

Where did I read this: "If everyone played mandolin there would be world peace."

[mandopete]

Every now then this one needs to re-surface...

Q: Is that a ukulele?

A: Sure atsa my 'kele, whachu tink, I steal it?

Thanks to the Marx Brothers!

[bjc]

The Great Yank "I've done had the blues so long they've turned black." Not mando specific, but he was a mando player...

[mandocrucian]

To paraphrase Adrian Monk:

"Mandolin - It's a gift.....and a curse."

[glauber]

Didn't Jethro Burns say "Buy the cheapest mandolin you can find; nobody will ever hear you anyway!"?

[John Flynn]

I may have this slightly wrong, but I think Tim O'Brien said, "Mandolin is an Italian word that means, 'out of tune.'"

Another one that may not be perfectly quoted is I think it was Scruggs who was playing onstage with Monroe and they were about to start a tune and Scruggs said, "Wait a minute Bill, I have a string out (of tune)." Bill said, "Well heck, I've got eight of 'em out!"

I was at a bluegrass gig last year at a small club. I was pulling my mando out and a guy from one of the groups said
" I like that small guitar". Made me pretty upset.

Ive heard these also.

" Dont wash your guitar that high".
" Give that guitar some food or something".

Ignorant thats all i got to say. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/coffee.gif

[johnhgayjr]

I've heard this one a lot over the years:

"Spend half my time tunin' and the other half playin' out of tune!"

John Gay
Memphis
Hard Drive (http://www.harddrivebluegrass.com)

[Russ Jordan]

From Mike Compton during his week as CGOW on comando (archived at www.mandozine.com:

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An amusing story about playing hard... Sonny said one time a fellow handed Bill an A model mandolin of some kind to play because he'd broken a string or something on his F5. Sonny said Bill played a couple songs on it, beat the hell out of it, and brought it back to the owner with only 2 strings left on it and said, "Here, I can't use this."
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[MANDOLINMYSTER]

"Thats cute"

[JEStanek]

I get this all the time from friends at work who don't know why I just don't play guitar... "OOOoooo its a dinka dinka dinka."

Jamie

[sbarnes]

jimmy buffett:
there's something so feminine
about a mandolin

[flairbzzt]

Had this from a tavern patron "I don't know what that is, but you can sure play the hell out of it!"