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
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
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
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
All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon; All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd To the dancers dancing in… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had… — Quentin Bryce Copy Share Image
Furthermore--though it was quite irrelevant now--he had no idea his killer, Kazuo Kiriyama, had, in his mansion that was much larger than… — Koushun Takami Copy Share Image
I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
Armed and dangerous, ain't too many can bang with us Straight up weed no angel dust, label us Notorious Thug ass niggaz… — The Notorious B.I.G Copy Share Image
There are days that I get neurotic with the instrument [violin]. Every little adjustment will change the balance for good or for… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
I come from a very musical family. My dad taught me to play guitar. I play violin and drums as well. Violin,… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
It's hard to explain what happens when jazz and punk fuse with a violin twist but it works. Probably because Anson Choi… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I was leaving my violin out of a lot of songs, and that's a strange thing to do because I've been playing… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I've always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
I've been playing music for a long time, mostly to empty rooms. That's not me getting the violin out. That's the reality… — Sam Ryder Copy Share Image
In contemporary music, the challenge for me is to make the recorder sound as naturally expressive as, for example, the violin -… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
“I want you to play for me,” he told her as he passed the violin back. Her elegant fingers gripped the neck… — Ella Frank Copy Share Image
I think I'll always feel a little in awe whenever I see someone in their 20s or 30s carrying a cello or… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
“When Tchaikovsky finished writing his Violin Concerto in 1878, he asked the famous violinist Leopold Auer to give the premier performance. Auer… — Geoff Colvin Copy Share Image
[Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A… — Anne Archer Copy Share Image
The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks,… — Thomas Powers Copy Share Image
I was born with God-given gifts of very talented musical ability and exceptoinal physical coordination. I always needed prodding to practice piano,… — Otto Graham Copy Share Image
“It puzzled him that she did not mourn all the things she could have been. Was it a quality inherent in women,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all… — Alison Krauss Copy Share Image
It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
I was actually the head of the violin after-school club. And then I was also the head of the dance club, the… — Henry Lau Copy Share Image
A violin is nothing more than a piece of wood and a dead cat. But it's a piece of technology. So when… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image