Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I felt as out of place as a left-handed violinist in a crowded string section. — Chic Murray Copy Share Image
It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists,… — Ruggiero Ricci Copy Share Image
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I began as a violinist, not a composer. Thus my contact with orchestral musicians, with the source of music, is very important. — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you're a rock and roll musician. Whereas if I were a violinist, it might… — Slash Copy Share Image
There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer. — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or… — Sally Kirkland Copy Share Image
I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the… — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
Whether you want to be the top violinist or a CEO, strangely enough, hard work and perseverance can overcome a lot of… — J Clifford Hudson Copy Share Image
The psychological and physiological mechanism of love is so complex that at a certain period in his life a young man must… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The zenith of virtuosity, a violinist like Jascha Heifetz, the supernatural in a pianist like Vladimir Horowitz, these are performers who were… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
Without even knowing it, we are assaulted by a high note of urgency all the time. We end up pacing ourselves to… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If you mess up the tiniest little thing in the Beethoven concerto, or the phrasing isn't just exactly perfectly executed, Beethoven brings… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in… — Zubin Mehta 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
The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Im one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. Im just the lucky one to be standing in the… — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
I called the great French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and I said 'So, who's the new cat? Who's got the stuff? And he… — Stanley Clarke Copy Share Image
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the… — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could… — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody… — Ruggiero Ricci Copy Share Image
Scott Tixier is an exciting young jazz violinist and is making an international name for himself. I heard him in France and… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think of blogging as finger exercises for a violinist; sometimes I think of it as mulching a garden. It is… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
My first hip-hop performance was at Carnegie Hall with Wyclef, ... I got a little feature and he announced me as the… — Miri Ben-Ari Copy Share Image
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to… — David Ogden Stiers Copy Share Image
Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the… — Isaac Stern Copy Share Image
When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind… — Gretchen Carlson Copy Share Image
I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
One thing I always say about my mom is we were so poor, but she always made sure that we got whatever… — Janelle James Copy Share Image
Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop… — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
