Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor. — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a good harmony — Lucy 'Aisy Copy Share Image
I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do. — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do a song with a violin; I always loved the sound of the instrument, especially for melodic stuff. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument. — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire, 'Hey lovely, what you got there?' she said, 'Musicians who ask questions,' and… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for… — Anne Akiko Meyers Copy Share Image
At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I'll never forget the first time I heard Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Partita in E Major' for violin. It was in a late-1980s… — Ajit Pai Copy Share Image
Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument.… — David Garrett Copy Share Image
I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put… — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Before I came to WWE, they sent me samples of all of the entrance music, so I told them, 'I don't use… — Shinsuke Nakamura Copy Share Image
“At first he had appreciated only the material quality of the sounds which those instruments secreted. And it had been a source… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music,… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village… — Freda Bright Copy Share Image
There are things about how a note sounds on a violin that are really analogous to the human voice - you have… — Bruce Molsky Copy Share Image
It's no use practicing too much. First you have to find out how to do it best. You have to be able… — Nathan Milstein Copy Share Image
I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen. — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
Although I wasn't fond of the violin in the beginning, as I played on I developed a fondness which soon turned into… — Mohan Sithara Copy Share Image
When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story. — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
I have a longing for violin or organ. Is it too simple to say those sustaining sounds symbolise immortality? — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I could spit dust I'm so mad. He wants to put violins on my new session. I'll die before I'll go all… — Patsy Cline Copy Share Image
The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark — Peggy Fleming Copy Share Image
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm... — James O'Barr Copy Share Image
My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Walk my way and a thousand violins begin to play, or it might be the sound of your hello. — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
“To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
