Violin Quotes · Page 4

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

— Louis Prima

I practice three hours daily on my violin so I won't get worse.

— Jack Benny

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Anonymous

Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.

— Wim Wenders

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

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

— Edward Lear

Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue…

— Itzhak Perlman

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

— Gretchen Carlson

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 definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo…

— Andrew Bird

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

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 played the violin my whole life. I wanted to play from the time I was just a little kid, and I've…

— Lindsey Stirling

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

If I look back, my mother was always out. I can remember the perfume and her scarlet chiffon dress and crystal beads,…

— Celia Imrie

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

— Emo Philips

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

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

He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart…

— Cassandra Clare

We are so not breaking out the violins and pity partying.

— Gena Showalter

Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?

— Andres Segovia

If I like dubstep and electronic, why don't I make the violin fit me rather than making myself fit the violin?

— Lindsey Stirling

So I just found this picture on the internet.. This is Darth Vader, from Star Wars… Playing the violin… Hmmm...

— Amber Hope

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.

— Anonymous

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

— Laurie Colwin

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

— Andrew Bird

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

— Andy Summers

“Violin makers live for a long time, but that’s only because they can’t afford to die.”

— James N McKean

I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.

— Rahsaan Roland Kirk

However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again.

— Arjuna Ardagh

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.

— Jacob Braude

I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.

— Andre Rieu