My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played… — Louis Prima Copy Share Image
I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter… — Vanessa Mae Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do a song with a violin; I always loved the sound of the instrument, especially for melodic stuff. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
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… — Ric Sanders Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was being pushed, against my will, towards becoming a classical musician. I had music scholarships; I had… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound. It's not trying to replace a band,… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
What I like about 'Game of Thrones' is that there's such a wide range. We have everything from very small, just solo… — Ramin Djawadi 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
There are some days I take my violin out and it feels dreadful, like nothing is responding, and I want to sell… — Joshua Bell 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
I was trained classically in violin and voice, which led to musical theater. Then I left the music scene to chase acting,… — Jesse Spencer Copy Share Image
Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course,… — Ian Mcewan 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
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've been playing the viola since I was 6 years old, and then I decided to switch it up a bit, so… — Anthony Gonzalez 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
I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
As Magnus turned to walk away from the church, he heard the sound of violin music carried to him on the cloudy… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I pressed PLAY and started up Chiron's favorite--the All-Time Greatest Hits of Dean Martin. Suddenly the air was filled with violins and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The bass line is the anchor for me. I started with the bass, and either doubled that and then added the harmonies,… — Petra Haden 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
“There is one, and only one, advantage to somebody who cannot play the violin insisting on doing so anyways, and the advantage… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
My mom definitely raised me with the capacity and the competence to do a lot of things. I love music, and that's… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all… — Alison Krauss Copy Share Image
The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks,… — Thomas Powers 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
I was actually the head of the violin after-school club. And then I was also the head of the dance club, the… — Henry Lau Copy Share Image
A violin is nothing more than a piece of wood and a dead cat. But it's a piece of technology. So when… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A… — Anne Archer Copy Share Image
I always wanted to play cello, but in school, when I said that, my friend laughed at me, and she was doing… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
“When at last I feel ready to tackle the whole of the piece, I begin slowly, delighting in the silvery tone of… — Pat Lowery Collins Copy Share Image
When I attained my seventh year, my father, whose ear was unmusical but who was nevertheless passionately fond of music, gave me… — Niccolo Paganini Copy Share Image
“I want you to play for me,” he told her as he passed the violin back. Her elegant fingers gripped the neck… — Ella Frank Copy Share Image
