I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well. — Alison Krauss Copy Share Image
For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had… — Quentin Bryce Copy Share Image
The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's… — Carlo Grante 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
I was born with God-given gifts of very talented musical ability and exceptoinal physical coordination. I always needed prodding to practice piano,… — Otto Graham Copy Share Image
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
I never felt like a prodigy. For one thing, the root of the word is rather monstrous, literally. I never really felt… — Hilary Hahn 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
I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back.… — Katherine Moennig Copy Share Image
To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
We have a lot of people onstage. We have a live violin, live cello, live drums played on this kind of massive… — Grace Chatto Copy Share Image
While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk,… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul. — Stendhal 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
The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the… — Luka Sulic 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
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
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image