If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the…

The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven’s. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The richest, the…

— Joseph Joachim

I do remember realizing one day that I loved plays more than I loved playing concertos.

— John Cariani

If I were to run around the world playing just the cello concertos - and believe me, I love playing them - I would…

— David Finckel

Looking back on it now, I felt that I was blessed much like the masters, I guess - the guys who wrote the concertos.

— Roy Orbison

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

— Leila Josefowicz

And I also think it's a violin when you're selling it and a fiddle when you're buying it.

— Amanda Shires

Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of…

— Nigel Kennedy

“I don't need to sleep to play. I'm crazy anyway. Being crazier still could only help.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Joshua Bell

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

— Noel Redding

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before.…

— Brendon Urie

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to…

— Patrick Swayze

“To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink…

— Bruce Crown

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out…

— Jacques Roumain