Violin Quotes · Page 6

He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless.

— Cassandra Clare

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any…

— Alain de Botton

If you play something well, I don't care what it is. I mean, I don't play an electric [violin] - I tried.…

— Itzhak Perlman

Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.

— Jacob Braude

I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.

— Andre Rieu

“The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Oh so it was some festival that had Darth playing a violin?? What the heck?

— Amber Hope

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

— Jodi Picoult

When I was eight, an uncle, great uncle, gave a violin to me, and my father took me off to have lessons.…

— Roger Moore

I don't want to discredit people's opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where…

— Bonnie Raitt

A violin neck is much smaller than the guitar's, so it's much easier to play wide intervals on one violin string. On…

— John Petrucci

We have a lot of people onstage. We have a live violin, live cello, live drums played on this kind of massive…

— Grace Chatto

I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I just woke up one day when I was six and I wanted to play the violin. Then, six years later, I…

— Leah Siegel

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond…

— Brett Weston

He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart…

— Cassandra Clare

On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I've had it for about 13 years, and I don't see any reason to change, I find that the violin just keeps…

— Hilary Hahn

There are so many things that can go wrong while performing. I've had violin strings break; I've had pants that were slowly…

— Lindsey Stirling

If I look back, my mother was always out. I can remember the perfume and her scarlet chiffon dress and crystal beads,…

— Celia Imrie

Charlie Chaplin is the greatest artist of the 20th century. He takes me from laughter to tears in seconds. And he was…

— Emo Philips

I don't want somebody who writes like me [in my writing staff]. Because I can write like me. I know what I'm…

— Tom Fontana

If you want to make films, you'll watch Kurosawa. If you want to play a violin, you listen to Seghetti. Same with…

— Robert Pinsky

The military doesn't teach rifle marksmanship. It teaches equipment familiarity. Despite what the officer corps thinks, learning to shoot a rifle is…

— Daryl Davis

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care…

— Josephine Baker

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

— Randy Bachman

Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Edgar Meyer's violin concerto was the first piece of contemporary music I worked on in any depth. I was 18 or 19.

— Hilary Hahn

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

— Samuel Butler

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

— Barbara Sher

I don't think there is any end to translucence. It's an endless journey, rather like playing the violin.

— Arjuna Ardagh

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

Violin was my first form of expression - and is still in a lot of ways.

— Amanda Shires

Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along

— E. M. Forster

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

— E. M. Forster

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

— Leila Josefowicz

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his…

— Winston Churchill

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.

— Ronnie Milsap