Violin Quotes · Page 8

“What are these?" Maxon asked, brushing across the tips of my fingers as we walked. "Calluses. They're from pressing down on violin…

— Kiera Cass

My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is…

— Peter Dinklage

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can…

— Barbara Sher

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

I don't know exactly when I started watching television, but I know that Muppets and Smurfs hold privileged places in my memory.…

— Kim Brooks

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

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

I first started playing the violin at 6. And then at 7, it was piano. So from then it was just classical…

— Henry Lau

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

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 studied violin since I was a boy, and my dream was to be a violinist and to play.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

The only downside to playing the violin is that you never know when you're going to be asked to play. I could…

— Charlie Siem

I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one…

— Rabindranath Tagore

It's hard to explain what happens when jazz and punk fuse with a violin twist but it works. Probably because Anson Choi…

— Melina Marchetta

The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single…

— Anonymous

I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in…

— Eric Hutchinson

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

— Louis Prima

[Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the…

— Jon Gordon

I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

— Edwin Land

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

— Pete Seeger

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

— Sirena Huang

My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used…

— Fiona Shaw

I pressed PLAY and started up Chiron's favorite--the All-Time Greatest Hits of Dean Martin. Suddenly the air was filled with violins and…

— Rick Riordan

I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind…

— Dan Hicks

Furthermore--though it was quite irrelevant now--he had no idea his killer, Kazuo Kiriyama, had, in his mansion that was much larger than…

— Koushun Takami