Violin Quotes · Page 6

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

— Edmond de Goncourt

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

— Alain de Botton

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

— George Eliot

There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm...

— James O'Barr

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

— Pete Seeger

Walk my way and a thousand violins begin to play, or it might be the sound of your hello.

— Johnny Mathis

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is…

— Bruce Crown

I'll never forget the first time I heard Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Partita in E Major' for violin. It was in a late-1980s…

— Ajit Pai

Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument.…

— David Garrett

I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your…

— Kevin Eubanks

Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment…

— Margaret Atwood

Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

We have a lot of pressures on children very young. We have ambition. We over-schedule our children. We want them to have…

— Julia Cameron

The best way would be education and kids and all that stuff and then education and working education comes through. Then I…

— A. R. Rahman

There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can…

— Aleksey Igudesman

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath…

— Mark Nepo

I'm happy to have interns at The Weekly Standard and happy to have readers of The Weekly Standard, but if you all…

— William Kristol

Visually I've always liked the 20s 30s for film. I do these because I like the music. I like the clothes. I…

— Woody Allen

If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the…

— Miles Franklin

I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at…

— Petra Haden

I was classically trained. But more than just the fact that I play violin, there's a lot of classical elements in the…

— Lindsey Stirling

I open up my violin case every day, and have one of the great creations. It is very inspiring. It makes you…

— Joshua Bell

Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking,…

— Oswald Chambers

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark

— Peggy Fleming

I first started playing the violin at 6. And then at 7, it was piano. So from then it was just classical…

— Henry Lau

I quit piano and violin because it felt too rigid. It was just my thing, something I fell in love with from…

— Jillian Hervey

There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.

— Dejan Stojanovic

No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it.

— Jim Fiebig

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

— Neal A. Maxwell

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone…

— Hal Linden

Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To…

— George Eliot

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

— Leila Josefowicz

I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant.

— Peter Dinklage

I always wanted to do a song with a violin; I always loved the sound of the instrument, especially for melodic stuff.

— Max Cavalera

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.

— Joshua Bell

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have…

— Sara Zarr

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

— Andrew Bird

Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument.

— Hilary Hahn

I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.

— Sue Townsend