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
I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin. — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
“The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for… — Charles-Auguste de Beriot Copy Share Image
Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves.… — Philippe Kahn Copy Share Image
If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,'… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put… — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin.… — Ethel Barrymore Copy Share Image
Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I'll never forget the first time I heard Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Partita in E Major' for violin. It was in a late-1980s… — Ajit Pai Copy Share Image
The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
Kids would come up to me after concerts and give me drawings they've made of violins or, you know, landscapes with a… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at… — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors,… — Noah Cicero Copy Share Image
The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond… — Brett Weston Copy Share Image
