Violin Quotes · Page 3

“Let the violin become a fiddle, boy.”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it.

— Jim Fiebig

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

— Neal A. Maxwell

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

— Luka Sulic

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

— Aleksey Igudesman

With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows.

— John Townsend Trowbridge

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at…

— Vanessa Mae

A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very…

— Julian Bream

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

— Noel Redding

I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and…

— Gretchen Carlson

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

I thought about what I wanted to do besides playing violin and singing backup in a band. Don't get me wrong, playing…

— Petra Haden

My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo…

— Colm Wilkinson

The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the…

— Luka Sulic

I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the…

— Jon Tester

We developed our own type of Igudesman and Joo electric violin, let's say, and funny enough, the shape of it was developed…

— Aleksey Igudesman

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies & played the violin: but one of the twins died,…

— Edward Lear

Unlike a high-wire walker, I don't think any musician strikes the wires of a piano or draws a bow across a violin's…

— Stephen Hough

Charlie Chaplin is the greatest artist of the 20th century. He takes me from laughter to tears in seconds. And he was…

— Emo Philips

Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin.…

— Laurie R. King

I injured myself quite badly when I was seventeen. I broke my ankle, and it didn't heal in such a way that…

— Kristin Lehman

With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music,…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I started playing violin because I was fascinated by how violin players could play so fast. I would buy their cassettes, and…

— Toby Lightman

There are things about how a note sounds on a violin that are really analogous to the human voice - you have…

— Bruce Molsky

Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum…

— Lamar Boschman

In his writings, Patton was shameless about his ambition to woo Lena to be his bride. He detailed the gradual progress he…

— Brandon Mull

My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine…

— Sean Mackin

When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire, 'Hey lovely, what you got there?' she said, 'Musicians who ask questions,' and…

— Laini Taylor

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

— Evelyn Glennie

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

— Dev Hynes

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back.…

— Katherine Moennig

I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

— Paul Desmond

I was the kid who didn't speak English, with a violin and ballroom dance shoes.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

I wound up sticking with violin because it was the strongest current in my life.

— Hilary Hahn

He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played.

— Cassandra Clare

I sometimes use a girl singer the way Henny Youngman uses his violin - as a bridge between one laugh and the…

— Benny Hill

I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.

— Louis Prima

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.

— Jascha Heifetz

So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull…

— John Ashbery