“Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to… — Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Copy Share Image
“If a man can’t build a violin, he might as well make pizzas in a former violin shop.” — Molly Wizenberg Copy Share Image
I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
“I don't need to sleep to play. I'm crazy anyway. Being crazier still could only help.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello. — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I… — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
I just woke up one day when I was six and I wanted to play the violin. Then, six years later, I… — Leah Siegel Copy Share Image
I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar,… — Kat Dennings Copy Share Image
My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used… — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for… — Anne Akiko Meyers Copy Share Image
At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Kids draw masterpieces - they're the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if… — Bjork Copy Share Image
The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Unlike a high-wire walker, I don't think any musician strikes the wires of a piano or draws a bow across a violin's… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Jem leaned closer against the chair, staring into the fire. “Better it were my hands,” he said. Will shook his head. Exhaustion… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the… — Jon Tester Copy Share Image
If you know the music the moment the violin string begins to vibrate, then you know how to navigate through the forest… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! I'm starting to learn guitar. — Birdy Copy Share Image
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I studied violin since I was a boy, and my dream was to be a violinist and to play. — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I mean, I'm a Ukrainian immigrant from Brooklyn who grew up dancing and playing the violin! — Valentin Chmerkovskiy Copy Share Image
Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer? — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And I also think it's a violin when you're selling it and a fiddle when you're buying it. — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age. — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano. — Declan Donnelly Copy Share Image
Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I could spit dust I'm so mad. He wants to put violins on my new session. I'll die before I'll go all… — Patsy Cline Copy Share Image
The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
