Violin Quotes · Page 3

I studied violin when I was very young.

— Lee Marvin

“Let the violin become a fiddle, boy.”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

I think the second I could stand I was handed a violin.

— Laufey

The violin didn't keep me from doing things I wanted to do.

— Hilary Hahn

I've always wanted to play violin.

— Maggie Rogers

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

— Vanessa Mae

I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano.

— Declan Donnelly

And I also think it's a violin when you're selling it and a fiddle when you're buying it.

— Amanda Shires

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.

— Anonymous

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

— Elie Wiesel

I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

— Paul Desmond

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

— Victor Borge

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

— Michala Petri

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on

— Samuel Butler

I took four years of violin, but got bored of it - over the years, I've been ADD with instruments. The only…

— Mister Lies

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage…

— Anton Seidl

The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven’s. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The…

— Joseph Joachim

I thought about what I wanted to do besides playing violin and singing backup in a band. Don't get me wrong, playing…

— Petra Haden

We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has…

— Gary Frank

My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo…

— Colm Wilkinson

My fourth birthday, I was given a violin, and my fifth birthday, a guitar. I didn't start to play until I saw…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can…

— Aleksey Igudesman

“Your violin has only two strings,” I say. “You’re missing the other two.” Yes, he says. He’s well aware. “All I want…

— Steve Lopez

“For me, you are fresh water that falls from trees when it has stopped raining. For me, you are cinnamon that lingers…

— Kamand Kojouri

“In the hands of someone who does not appreciate or understand music, the instrument is just a lump of wood, but in…

— Jason Luke

The violin is very beautiful. Some people relate it as the shape of a lady, but, whether you like it or not,…

— Sirena Huang

The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The…

— J.A. Redmerski

Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a…

— Hermann Hesse

Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows.

— John Townsend Trowbridge

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings

— William Somerset Maugham

When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.

— Fred Allen

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

— Noel Redding

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

— Neville Marriner

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

— Stendhal

I'm the violin, a melody I want your lips to sing. If you only knew how hard it is to handle.

— Neon Trees

Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you…

— E.M. Forster

I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.

— Aleksey Igudesman