Violin Quotes · Page 2

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

— Joshua Bell

I studied violin when I was very young.

— Lee Marvin

The violin didn't keep me from doing things I wanted to do.

— Hilary Hahn

I've always wanted to play violin.

— Maggie Rogers

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

— Vanessa Mae

I think the second I could stand I was handed a violin.

— Laufey

“Let the violin become a fiddle, boy.”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.

— Anonymous

“Violin makers live for a long time, but that’s only because they can’t afford to die.”

— James N McKean

The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.

— Anonymous

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

— Itzhak Perlman

“Should I get my violin out? I feel this little chat of yours needs an accompanying rhapsody.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

If I like dubstep and electronic, why don't I make the violin fit me rather than making myself fit the violin?

— Lindsey Stirling

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way…

— Jane Chen

So I just found this picture on the internet.. This is Darth Vader, from Star Wars… Playing the violin… Hmmm...

— Amber Hope

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

— Barbara Sher

So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull…

— John Ashbery

I had no idea I was gonna be a songwriter, because I was too young to know my own evolution. I started…

— Amanda Shires

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. A table, a chair,…

— Albert Einstein

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to…

— Marilyn vos Savant

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and…

— Steve Lacy

I never felt like a prodigy. For one thing, the root of the word is rather monstrous, literally. I never really felt…

— Hilary Hahn

“More so than with any other instrument, the violin becomes part of the body. Good musicians are physically dissolved when playing, and…

— Lavinia Greenlaw

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

[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those…

— Bjork

I injured myself quite badly when I was seventeen. I broke my ankle, and it didn't heal in such a way that…

— Kristin Lehman

I more or less think that the trombone was chosen for me. I first selected a violin, which I didn't do too…

— Curtis Fuller

Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's…

— Carlo Grante

Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin.…

— Laurie R. King

I don't want somebody who writes like me [in my writing staff]. Because I can write like me. I know what I'm…

— Tom Fontana

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

— Ludwig van Beethoven

A violin should be played with love, or not at all.

— Joseph Wechsberg

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

— Sirena Huang

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!

— Birdy

The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

— Larry McMurtry

I've played classical violin since I was 5 years old.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.

— Julia Roberts

I play violin it takes skill and heart

— Bani Bowen