What does it take to be a good fiddle player?

Well, talent doesn’t hurt. I come from a fiddle-playing family—I started at five years old. At seven my dad died and I had to start helping my mother make a living. By nine I was playing fiddle professionally. So I just learned. But, to be honest with you, it’s hard for me to say how to become successful at it. I just did it because I was hungry. Hungry to learn, you know? You have to have that burning desire to succeed at anything. I h...