Violin Quotes · Page 12

I played the violin from a very young age but would love to be able to sit down in a bar at…

— Cathy Newman

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

— Randy Bachman

For one movie, I'm learning to play a violin, and I had never picked up a violin in my life. That's a…

— Luke Evans

I realised, however, that you can't sing when you're playing the violin - or at least I can't - and as that…

— Freya Ridings

Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument.…

— David Garrett

[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those…

— Bjork

I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so…

— Reggie Watts

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

— Michala Petri

He was gazing at her, the way one did when one felt one was unobserved. He had that look on his face,…

— Cassandra Clare

“How insufficient the memory, to fail before death. how will hear these notes when the train slides into the yard, the lights…

— Ocean Vuong

A violin should be played with love, or not at all.

— Joseph Wechsberg

When you fall in love, you genuinely hear violin being played in the background. You genuinely feel that clouds are bursting and…

— Pulkit Samrat

I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

— Anonymous

I do piano, violin, guitar, basketball, gymnastics, ballet.

— Selah Louise Marley

There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I had no idea I was gonna be a songwriter, because I was too young to know my own evolution. I started…

— Amanda Shires

K.G. Sathar, a neighbour, was my guru. He taught me the violin and Hindustani music.

— Mohan Sithara

I more or less think that the trombone was chosen for me. I first selected a violin, which I didn't do too…

— Curtis Fuller

Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along

— E. M. Forster

I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to…

— J. Cole

We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has…

— Gary Frank

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different…

— David Del Tredici

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't…

— Wynton Marsalis

There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin