One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. A table, a chair,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum… — Lamar Boschman Copy Share Image
In his writings, Patton was shameless about his ambition to woo Lena to be his bride. He detailed the gradual progress he… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I never felt like a prodigy. For one thing, the root of the word is rather monstrous, literally. I never really felt… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I've been playing the viola since I was 6 years old, and then I decided to switch it up a bit, so… — Anthony Gonzalez Copy Share Image
A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively… — William James Copy Share Image
I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I always say separate your abilities from your disabilities. You know, if I could play the violin, I don't have to play… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Edgar Meyer's violin concerto was the first piece of contemporary music I worked on in any depth. I was 18 or 19. — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
“One thing I have learned for sure. A woman is like a living Violin. She would only offer herself to this who… — Sameh Elsayed Copy Share Image
I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the… — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what… — Debbie Harry 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
When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different… — David Del Tredici Copy Share Image
Between 1994 and the year 2000, when the Republican majority was in control of the House of Representatives, President Clinton played House… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
“There was one she kept reaching for, with a copper-red varnish, and a clarity like the point of a star, precise and… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Love is like a roller coaster: When it's good you don't want to get off, and when it isn't, you can't wait… — June Masters Bacher Copy Share Image
Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on… — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I did a little bit of theater when I was in high school outside of my high school. I was focused more… — Simone Missick Copy Share Image
I realised, however, that you can't sing when you're playing the violin - or at least I can't - and as that… — Freya Ridings Copy Share Image
I started playing violin when I was about five years old and I learned to read a little bit of music, but… — Mura Masa Copy Share Image
I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“A violin?” I echoed, making a face. “Really? You’re calling in a favor for that? What, you don’t want to wait until… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image