“There was one she kept reaching for, with a copper-red varnish, and a clarity like the point of a star, precise and… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different… — David Del Tredici Copy Share Image
To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
“One thing I have learned for sure. A woman is like a living Violin. She would only offer herself to this who… — Sameh Elsayed Copy Share Image
What I like about 'Game of Thrones' is that there's such a wide range. We have everything from very small, just solo… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I'm incapable of functioning without music. I've always had it in my life. I played the violin when I was a kid,… — Peter Dundas Copy Share Image
There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“It is unlikely you will truly get the feeling of the violin until you have been studying for at least a year… — Bill Ballantine Copy Share Image
The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
There are some days I take my violin out and it feels dreadful, like nothing is responding, and I want to sell… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
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… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the… — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
Kids would come up to me after concerts and give me drawings they've made of violins or, you know, landscapes with a… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I grew up a fat kid in a small town in Minnesota who was a tomboy and happened to play a mean… — Gretchen Carlson Copy Share Image
My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
I don't sleep with a violin in my bed, but there is something very magical about the instrument. You open up the… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I always say separate your abilities from your disabilities. You know, if I could play the violin, I don't have to play… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
I've been playing the viola since I was 6 years old, and then I decided to switch it up a bit, so… — Anthony Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake up in the… — Ellen Hollman Copy Share Image
I always wanted to play cello, but in school, when I said that, my friend laughed at me, and she was doing… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
When you fall in love, you genuinely hear violin being played in the background. You genuinely feel that clouds are bursting and… — Pulkit Samrat Copy Share Image
Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune,… — Ruggiero Ricci Copy Share Image
To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
