Violin Quotes · Page 5

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

— Stephane Grappelli

here is no competition of sounds Between a nightingale and a violin.

— Dejan Stojanovic

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

— Barbara Sher

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

— Honore de Balzac

Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a good harmony

— Lucy 'Aisy

Violin was my first form of expression - and is still in a lot of ways.

— Amanda Shires

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

— E. M. Forster

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

— E. M. Forster

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

— Dev Hynes

The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They…

— Elliott Carter

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 don't want to discredit people's opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where…

— Bonnie Raitt

A violin neck is much smaller than the guitar's, so it's much easier to play wide intervals on one violin string. On…

— John Petrucci

We have a lot of people onstage. We have a live violin, live cello, live drums played on this kind of massive…

— Grace Chatto

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

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.

— Eduard Hanslick

I don't want somebody who writes like me [in my writing staff]. Because I can write like me. I know what I'm…

— Tom Fontana

Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's…

— Carlo Grante

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

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

The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin…

— Andrew Bird

Before I came to WWE, they sent me samples of all of the entrance music, so I told them, 'I don't use…

— Shinsuke Nakamura

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

At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the…

— James Elkins

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

— Leila Josefowicz

Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument.

— Hilary Hahn

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.

— Joshua Bell

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

— Joshua Bell

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

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

The violin is basically made of a wood box and four main strings.

— Sirena Huang

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

— Ludwig van Beethoven

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark

— Peggy Fleming

There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm...

— James O'Barr

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

— Alain de Botton

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

— Pete Seeger

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

— Johnny Mathis

I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

— Adam Jones

I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant.

— Peter Dinklage

The violin didn't keep me from doing things I wanted to do.

— Hilary Hahn