quotes about Violin
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
-- Alain de Botton -
Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.
-- Alain de Botton -
I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.
-- Aleksey Igudesman -
I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.
-- Alison Krauss -
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I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.
-- Andre RieuSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?
-- Andres Segovia -
Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.
-- Andrew Bird -
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I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.
-- Andrew Bird -
If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
-- Andy Summers -
Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.
-- Anne Dudley -
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.
-- Barbara Sher -
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
-- Barbara Sher -
An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.
-- Daniel BarenboimSource : "Europe has to take the initiative now". Interview with Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2004.
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Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin.
-- David GarrettSource : Source: edition.cnn.com
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I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.
-- Denise Van OutenSource : "A blonde has more fun" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2001.
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Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along
-- E. M. Forster -
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.
-- Elliott Carter -
We are so not breaking out the violins and pity partying.
-- Gena Showalter -
Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
-- George Eliot -
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Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.
-- Hal Linden -
I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
-- Itzhak Perlman -
I practice three hours daily on my violin so I won't get worse.
-- Jack Benny -
If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.
-- Jascha Heifetz -
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Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.
-- Jason Bateman -
The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.
-- Jessie Andrews -
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
-- John Lubbock -
The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.
-- Jose Mourinho -
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I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the orchestra, and when you're an actor, you're playing the violin. There's a thrill to each of them, but as the conductor, you get the fuller sound.
-- Josh Radnor -
What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.
-- Joshua Bell -
I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.
-- Joshua Bell -
Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.
-- Julia Roberts -
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Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
-- Lara St. John -
The older the violin, the sweeter the music.
-- Larry McMurtry -
A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.
-- Laurie Colwin -
If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.
-- Leila JosefowiczSource : "Leila Josefowicz: The thrill of the new". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2010.
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I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.
-- Leila JosefowiczSource : "Leila Josefowicz: The thrill of the new". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2010.
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I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.
-- Louis Prima -
…the violin — that most human of all instruments…
-- Louisa May Alcott -
Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists
-- Mikhail Botvinnik -
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The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.
-- Mstislav RostropovichSource : "Why the cello is a hero". Interview With Julian Lloyd Webber, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 28, 2004.
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It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.
-- Mstislav Rostropovich -
The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.
-- Neal A. Maxwell -
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
-- Neville Marriner -
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I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.
-- Noel Redding -
At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
-- Noel Redding -
Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.
-- Patrice LeconteSource : "INTERVIEW: Man on the Bridge; Leconte Balances Classic and Contemporary with 'Widow'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. February 28, 2001.
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As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark
-- Peggy Fleming -
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I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.
-- Rabindranath Tagore -
I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.
-- Rahsaan Roland Kirk -
Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke -
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I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.
-- Sara Zarr -
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.
-- StendhalSource : Stendhal (2003). “The Red and the Black”, p.11, Modern Library
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I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case
-- Tomas TranstromerSource : Tomas Transtromer (2011). “The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems”, p.199, New Directions Publishing
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I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.
-- Tommy Cooper -
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
-- Vanessa Mae -
Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.
-- Wim WendersSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble.
-- Anne Akiko Meyers -
While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.
-- Bear McCreary -
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I quit piano and violin because it felt too rigid. It was just my thing, something I fell in love with from a very early age.
-- Jillian Hervey -
A violin should be played with love, or not at all.
-- Joseph Wechsberg -
Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.
-- Michala Petri -
As far as I remember, there was no actual lyric written to that.At the very beginning of "Fiddler on the Roof," there's a violin solo, an unaccompanied violin solo.
-- Sheldon Harnick -
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However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again.
-- Arjuna ArdaghSource : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
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I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didnt really like the violin. I was only doing it because I could, and I was good at it, and everyone was encouraging me. But I didnt have a great love for it.
-- B. D. Wong -
I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! I'm starting to learn guitar.
-- BirdySource : Source: www.seventeen.com
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[Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin.
-- Stephane Grappelli