Violin Quotes · Page 4

I was the kid who didn't speak English, with a violin and ballroom dance shoes.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played.

— Cassandra Clare

When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.

— Fred Allen

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

— Noel Redding

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

— Victor Borge

With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows.

— John Townsend Trowbridge

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on

— Samuel Butler

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

— Michala Petri

I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he…

— Madeleine L'Engle

A violin neck is much smaller than the guitar's, so it's much easier to play wide intervals on one violin string. On…

— John Petrucci

I don't want to discredit people's opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where…

— Bonnie Raitt

We have a lot of people onstage. We have a live violin, live cello, live drums played on this kind of massive…

— Grace Chatto

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

I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put…

— Petra Haden

“At first he had appreciated only the material quality of the sounds which those instruments secreted. And it had been a source…

— Marcel Proust

With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music,…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin…

— Andrew Bird

Before I came to WWE, they sent me samples of all of the entrance music, so I told them, 'I don't use…

— Shinsuke Nakamura

“In the hands of someone who does not appreciate or understand music, the instrument is just a lump of wood, but in…

— Jason Luke

The violin is very beautiful. Some people relate it as the shape of a lady, but, whether you like it or not,…

— Sirena Huang

Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings

— William Somerset Maugham

Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you…

— E.M. Forster

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

— Luka Sulic

I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.

— Aleksey Igudesman

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

— Neville Marriner

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

— Stendhal

I'm the violin, a melody I want your lips to sing. If you only knew how hard it is to handle.

— Neon Trees

I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin.

— Itzhak Perlman

A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very…

— Julian Bream

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

— Noel Redding

I studied classical violin and voice until I was 18 and by then I had had my fill.

— Sunny Ozell

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at…

— Vanessa Mae

Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

— Garrison Keillor

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

— Alison Krauss

“Through him I could play the music I heard in my soul. I was the violin, he was the bow.”

— S. Jae-Jones