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
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
Kids would come up to me after concerts and give me drawings they've made of violins or, you know, landscapes with a… — Hilary Hahn 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
I'm incapable of functioning without music. I've always had it in my life. I played the violin when I was a kid,… — Peter Dundas Copy Share Image
I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the… — Josh Radnor 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
What I like about 'Game of Thrones' is that there's such a wide range. We have everything from very small, just solo… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be… — N. T. Wright 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
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
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
“It is unlikely you will truly get the feeling of the violin until you have been studying for at least a year… — Bill Ballantine 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
Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from… — Luigi Russolo 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
“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
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 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
“Cooking is like playing a violin. The bow is a tool used to play, as is the knives and other tools you… — Jennifer Megan Varnadore 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
When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
My mom definitely raised me with the capacity and the competence to do a lot of things. I love music, and that's… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
“There is one, and only one, advantage to somebody who cannot play the violin insisting on doing so anyways, and the advantage… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The bass line is the anchor for me. I started with the bass, and either doubled that and then added the harmonies,… — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
As Magnus turned to walk away from the church, he heard the sound of violin music carried to him on the cloudy… — Cassandra Clare 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
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
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
I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this.… — Jim Butcher 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
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
The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
