Violin Quotes · Page 5

I did a little bit of theater when I was in high school outside of my high school. I was focused more…

— Simone Missick

here is no competition of sounds Between a nightingale and a violin.

— Dejan Stojanovic

[Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin.

— Stephane Grappelli

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

— Barbara Sher

I sometimes use a girl singer the way Henny Youngman uses his violin - as a bridge between one laugh and the…

— Benny Hill

I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.

— Louis Prima

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

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

I always wanted to play cello, but in school, when I said that, my friend laughed at me, and she was doing…

— Monica Barbaro

Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand…

— Ellen Barkin

I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one…

— Andrew Bird

I actually prefer to hear small groups of instruments. Orchestras seem to lack a texture for me, or variety of texture. There's…

— Stephin Merritt

For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty…

— Stewart Brand

The only downside to playing the violin is that you never know when you're going to be asked to play. I could…

— Charlie Siem

When I attained my seventh year, my father, whose ear was unmusical but who was nevertheless passionately fond of music, gave me…

— Niccolo Paganini

Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp…

— Eric Weiner

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

And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on…

— Leonard Cohen

I pressed PLAY and started up Chiron's favorite--the All-Time Greatest Hits of Dean Martin. Suddenly the air was filled with violins and…

— Rick Riordan

Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding…

— Jacques Barzun

As Magnus turned to walk away from the church, he heard the sound of violin music carried to him on the cloudy…

— Cassandra Clare

A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively…

— William James

My mom definitely raised me with the capacity and the competence to do a lot of things. I love music, and that's…

— Milla Jovovich

I was the kid who didn't speak English, with a violin and ballroom dance shoes.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played.

— Cassandra Clare

“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

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

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

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

— Mohan Sithara