The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. A table, a chair,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Well my dad forced me into playing the violin when I was about three and it all started from there. I went… — Tom Misch Copy Share Image
No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Every night I give a violin recital for six hours, and attendance is mandatory. The word 'mandatory' means that if you don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes.… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The bass line is the anchor for me. I started with the bass, and either doubled that and then added the harmonies,… — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There is one, and only one, advantage to somebody who cannot play the violin insisting on doing so anyways, and the advantage… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
As Magnus turned to walk away from the church, he heard the sound of violin music carried to him on the cloudy… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He was gazing at her, the way one did when one felt one was unobserved. He had that look on his face,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart… — Judith Stone Copy Share Image
The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't sleep with a violin in my bed, but there is something very magical about the instrument. You open up the… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I always say separate your abilities from your disabilities. You know, if I could play the violin, I don't have to play… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
I've been playing the viola since I was 6 years old, and then I decided to switch it up a bit, so… — Anthony Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Most kids are very seriously interested in something - friends, math, shopping, sports. For me it happened to be music and the… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I was trained classically in violin and voice, which led to musical theater. Then I left the music scene to chase acting,… — Jesse Spencer Copy Share Image
When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different… — David Del Tredici Copy Share Image
To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
Between 1994 and the year 2000, when the Republican majority was in control of the House of Representatives, President Clinton played House… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
“There was one she kept reaching for, with a copper-red varnish, and a clarity like the point of a star, precise and… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I'm incapable of functioning without music. I've always had it in my life. I played the violin when I was a kid,… — Peter Dundas Copy Share Image
There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
“One thing I have learned for sure. A woman is like a living Violin. She would only offer herself to this who… — Sameh Elsayed Copy Share Image
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