Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to… — Arthur Conan Doyle 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 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
It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter… — Vanessa Mae 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
My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played… — Louis Prima Copy Share Image
Lili manages to mix Kate Bush with modern influences to make a beautifully unique sound based around her amazing violin skills and… — Steve Lillywhite Copy Share Image
I was actually the head of the violin after-school club. And then I was also the head of the dance club, the… — Henry Lau Copy Share Image
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks,… — Thomas Powers Copy Share Image
It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all… — Alison Krauss Copy Share Image
“It puzzled him that she did not mourn all the things she could have been. Was it a quality inherent in women,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I was born with God-given gifts of very talented musical ability and exceptoinal physical coordination. I always needed prodding to practice piano,… — Otto Graham 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
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
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
Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal… — Leopold Auer Copy Share Image
“The true violin did not appear until about the year 1550. It did not reach its eminent position in the musical world… — Bill Ballantine Copy Share Image
Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what… — Amy Chua 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
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 Copy Share Image
It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is… — Oscar Wilde 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
I will probably be remembered as someone who bastardized classical music, but apart from that I like to be someone who injected… — Vanessa Mae Copy Share Image
“A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
We get so many kids telling us that they've taken up the violin or cello. It's really special, and it wasn't really… — Grace Chatto Copy Share Image
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the… — Georgia O'Keeffe 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
Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was… — Nigel Kennedy 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
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 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
My parents were into 40s big band stuff, and my father was a great dancer to that kind of thing. But rock… — Mark Alan Stamaty 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
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
