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 think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I quit piano and violin because it felt too rigid. It was just my thing, something I fell in love with from… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
When you fall in love, you genuinely hear violin being played in the background. You genuinely feel that clouds are bursting and… — Pulkit Samrat Copy Share Image
Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune,… — Ruggiero Ricci Copy Share Image
I first started playing the violin at 6. And then at 7, it was piano. So from then it was just classical… — Henry Lau Copy Share Image
I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake up in the… — Ellen Hollman Copy Share Image
I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
There are some days I take my violin out and it feels dreadful, like nothing is responding, and I want to sell… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound. It's not trying to replace a band,… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk,… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I rode my bike to school, I was the head girl, I played the violin, was really nerdy. I was really underweight,… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was being pushed, against my will, towards becoming a classical musician. I had music scholarships; I had… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
There's times I've been quite nervous doing session work, such as when I'm asked to play the violin in a 'country and… — Ric Sanders Copy Share Image
The nice thing about the violin repertoire is that it's small enough that you can plan on learning everything at some point… — Hilary Hahn 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
I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind… — Dan Hicks Copy Share Image
There are days that I get neurotic with the instrument [violin]. Every little adjustment will change the balance for good or for… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I come from a very musical family. My dad taught me to play guitar. I play violin and drums as well. Violin,… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't really like the… — Anonymous 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
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 Copy Share Image
If you look at somebody like Bach, he didn't need collaborators to write for keyboards, cello, violin or anything else. I feel… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
In contemporary music, the challenge for me is to make the recorder sound as naturally expressive as, for example, the violin -… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I've always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
“That night, there was a sliver of a moon over the des Michels farm. Jean put his horse in the stable after… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
![“While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.” quote by Bear McCreary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e85/bear-mccreary-4348_contemplative_while-the-accompanimental-sic-figures-co_1908864.jpg)
![“There are days that I get neurotic with the instrument [violin]. Every little adjustment will change the balance for good or for bad. It's kind of a miracle, the way the whole thing works as an acoustical whole, so perfectly balanced that any little thing will - which also means the weather, the…” quote by Joshua Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fd9/joshua-bell-13600_adjustment_there-are-days-that-i-get-neurotic-with_661642.jpg)
