If a man can’t build a violin, he might as well make…

If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and…

— John Corigliano

We get so many kids telling us that they've taken up the violin or cello. It's really special, and it wasn't really our intention…

— Grace Chatto

My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo and piano…

— Colm Wilkinson

I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case

— Tomas Transtromer

The bass line is the anchor for me. I started with the bass, and either doubled that and then added the harmonies, or sometimes…

— Petra Haden

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