I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

— Joshua Bell

My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine how uncool…

— Sean Mackin

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.

— Hal Linden

“There is one, and only one, advantage to somebody who cannot play the violin insisting on doing so anyways, and the advantage is that…

— Lemony Snicket

I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but I just…

— Alexa Chung

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! I'm starting to learn guitar.

— Birdy

There's times I've been quite nervous doing session work, such as when I'm asked to play the violin in a 'country and western' style…

— Ric Sanders

I definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo that's -…

— Andrew Bird

When I was young, I was being pushed, against my will, towards becoming a classical musician. I had music scholarships; I had to play…

— Johnny Flynn

I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it…

— Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Math is the beautiful, rich, joyful, playful, surprising, frustrating, humbling and creative art that speaks to something transcendental. It is worthy of much exploration…

— James Tanton

I just woke up one day when I was six and I wanted to play the violin. Then, six years later, I didn't want…

— Leah Siegel

I was classically trained. But more than just the fact that I play violin, there's a lot of classical elements in the way I…

— Lindsey Stirling

I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?' I looked at that…

— Sirena Huang

I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

— Edwin Land