Violin Quotes · Page 3

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

— Larry McMurtry

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.

— Julia Roberts

I play violin it takes skill and heart

— Bani Bowen

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

— Birdy

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back.…

— Katherine Moennig

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

— Evelyn Glennie

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and…

— Gretchen Carlson

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

— Andy Summers

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

— James N McKean

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

— Andrew Bird

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

— Anonymous

The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They…

— Elliott Carter

He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart…

— Cassandra Clare

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond…

— Brett Weston

I definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo…

— Andrew Bird

When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire, 'Hey lovely, what you got there?' she said, 'Musicians who ask questions,' and…

— Laini Taylor

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I just woke up one day when I was six and I wanted to play the violin. Then, six years later, I…

— Leah Siegel

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

— Albert Einstein

The only thing I can say that is not bullshit is that you do have to learn to write in a way…

— Kevin Canty

I've had it for about 13 years, and I don't see any reason to change, I find that the violin just keeps…

— Hilary Hahn

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

“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

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

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

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

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