Violin Quotes · Page 4

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

— Luka Sulic

I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin.

— Itzhak Perlman

A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very…

— Julian Bream

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

— Noel Redding

I studied classical violin and voice until I was 18 and by then I had had my fill.

— Sunny Ozell

Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

— Garrison Keillor

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

— Alison Krauss

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at…

— Vanessa Mae

“You don't have to be a professional to play music. Close your eyes, take a deep breath.. And let it out. Let…

— TheBakaViolinist

The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is…

— Mstislav Rostropovich

“The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for…

— Charles-Auguste de Beriot

I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors,…

— Noah Cicero

I played the violin from a very young age but would love to be able to sit down in a bar at…

— Cathy Newman

A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it…

— Dave Genn

I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in…

— Eric Hutchinson

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his…

— Robert Schumann

Kids draw masterpieces - they're the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if…

— Bjork

If you know the music the moment the violin string begins to vibrate, then you know how to navigate through the forest…

— John Daido Loori

I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the…

— Jon Tester

Unlike a high-wire walker, I don't think any musician strikes the wires of a piano or draws a bow across a violin's…

— Stephen Hough

Jem leaned closer against the chair, staring into the fire. “Better it were my hands,” he said. Will shook his head. Exhaustion…

— Cassandra Clare

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath…

— Mark Nepo

I'm happy to have interns at The Weekly Standard and happy to have readers of The Weekly Standard, but if you all…

— William Kristol

I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at…

— Petra Haden

K.G. Sathar, a neighbour, was my guru. He taught me the violin and Hindustani music.

— Mohan Sithara

When I started learning the violin, my choir teacher thought I could sing. But when I first got on stage, I froze!

— Momina Mustehsan

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.

— Eduard Hanslick

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

— Paul Desmond

I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and…

— Gretchen Carlson

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

— Evelyn Glennie

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

— Dev Hynes

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back.…

— Katherine Moennig

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“If all would play first violin, we could not obtain an orchestra. Therefore esteem every musician in his place.”

— Robert Schumann

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.

— Anonymous

The girl doesn’t need a violin,” he added. “She needs to have her hands bound so she can never touch an instrument…

— Julia Quinn

If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.

— Jascha Heifetz

I wound up sticking with violin because it was the strongest current in my life.

— Hilary Hahn

For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.

— Freeman Dyson