Violin Quotes

The violin sings.

— Joshua Bell

We at ya kneck like a violin

— Young Money

We are so not breaking out the violins and pity partying.

— Gena Showalter

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

— John Lubbock

The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.

— Niccolo Paganini

“I have been known to say that the devil gave me my first violin.”

— Laini Taylor

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

— Laurie Colwin

I tried to learn the violin for a while.

— Peter Wright

“Very touching. Do you want me to imitate a violin?”

— L.J. Smith

I practice three hours daily on my violin so I won't get worse.

— Jack Benny

Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?

— Andres Segovia

I don't want to start getting my little violin out, but travelling across the world constantly and staying in hotels is tough,…

— Taron Egerton

Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.

— Wim Wenders

I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.

— Johnny Flynn

I know Ornette was playing violin sometimes - that was his bridge into the classical world, to break up that whole pecking…

— Wayne Shorter

It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You.'

— Eddie Dean

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

— Andrew Bird

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

— Andy Summers

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin.…

— Ethel Barrymore

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that…

— Bobby Vinton

I'm not crying about anything or anyone in particular. The life I live I created for myself, and I wouldn't want it…

— Anonymous

Well, since I'm six years old, I've been playing the violin, the piano, I've been singing. It's always been a dream of…

— Paris Hilton

“The harder we press on a violin string, the less we can feel it. The louder we play, the less we hear.… If…

— Arianna Huffington

I went to an all-girls school where most people played the piano or the violin, so I didn't really know anyone who…

— Ellie Rowsell

I started playing violin when I was six, so I thought I could be a professional. It wasn't until I was 15…

— Torrey DeVitto

A cello can sound like so many instruments, but it's only one, you know, like a guitar; it has percussive qualities. It…

— Luka Sulic

It's no use practicing too much. First you have to find out how to do it best. You have to be able…

— Nathan Milstein

In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village…

— Freda Bright

There are things about how a note sounds on a violin that are really analogous to the human voice - you have…

— Bruce Molsky

I started playing violin because I was fascinated by how violin players could play so fast. I would buy their cassettes, and…

— Toby Lightman

All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it…

— Walt Whitman

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

In his writings, Patton was shameless about his ambition to woo Lena to be his bride. He detailed the gradual progress he…

— Brandon Mull

Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum…

— Lamar Boschman

When I was five I had violin lessons.

— Randy Bachman

I do piano, violin, guitar, basketball, gymnastics, ballet.

— Selah Louise Marley

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

— Edwin Land

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

— Patrice Leconte

I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case

— Tomas Transtromer

I grew up playing piano and violin, and then basketball took over.

— Liz Cambage