I remember my mum saying to me, 'You can give up the violin - when you've done Grade 8.' Which is the… — Gethin Jones Copy Share Image
Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar,… — Kat Dennings Copy Share Image
I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant. — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire. — Leila Josefowicz Copy Share Image
I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I… — Jesse Spencer Copy Share Image
I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it… — Dave Genn Copy Share Image
What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do. — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
What I like about 'Game of Thrones' is that there's such a wide range. We have everything from very small, just solo… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live! — Dev Hynes Copy Share Image
Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone… — Hal Linden Copy Share Image
Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin. — Patrice Leconte Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As far as I remember, there was no actual lyric written to that.At the very beginning of "Fiddler on the Roof," there's… — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
“For me, you are fresh water that falls from trees when it has stopped raining. For me, you are cinnamon that lingers… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
