Violin Quotes · Page 11

There are some days I take my violin out and it feels dreadful, like nothing is responding, and I want to sell…

— Joshua Bell

I have a longing for violin or organ. Is it too simple to say those sustaining sounds symbolise immortality?

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

[Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin.

— Stephane Grappelli

When I attained my seventh year, my father, whose ear was unmusical but who was nevertheless passionately fond of music, gave me…

— Niccolo Paganini

Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune,…

— Ruggiero Ricci

I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.

— Aleksey Igudesman

Walk my way and a thousand violins begin to play, or it might be the sound of your hello.

— Johnny Mathis

There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can…

— Aleksey Igudesman

It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red…

— E. M. Forster

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.

— Anonymous

There are so many things that can go wrong while performing. I've had violin strings break; I've had pants that were slowly…

— Lindsey Stirling

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing.…

— Guy Clark

I know Ornette was playing violin sometimes - that was his bridge into the classical world, to break up that whole pecking…

— Wayne Shorter

I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake up in the…

— Ellen Hollman

A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.

— Ambrose Bierce

If you want to make films, you'll watch Kurosawa. If you want to play a violin, you listen to Seghetti. Same with…

— Robert Pinsky

Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves…

— Yehudi Menuhin

Well my dad forced me into playing the violin when I was about three and it all started from there. I went…

— Tom Misch

I always wanted to play cello, but in school, when I said that, my friend laughed at me, and she was doing…

— Monica Barbaro

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

— Noel Redding

I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this.…

— Jim Butcher

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

— Joseph Joachim

I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.

— Mark Foster

Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region…

— Arthur Conan Doyle