Violin Quotes · Page 7

Although I wasn't fond of the violin in the beginning, as I played on I developed a fondness which soon turned into…

— Mohan Sithara

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

— Joshua Bell

I have a longing for violin or organ. Is it too simple to say those sustaining sounds symbolise immortality?

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

— Barbara Sher

I don't think there is any end to translucence. It's an endless journey, rather like playing the violin.

— Arjuna Ardagh

I did a little bit of theater when I was in high school outside of my high school. I was focused more…

— Simone Missick

here is no competition of sounds Between a nightingale and a violin.

— Dejan Stojanovic

[Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin.

— Stephane Grappelli

“You don't have to be a professional to play music. Close your eyes, take a deep breath.. And let it out. Let…

— TheBakaViolinist

I thought about what I wanted to do besides playing violin and singing backup in a band. Don't get me wrong, playing…

— Petra Haden

We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has…

— Gary Frank

My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo…

— Colm Wilkinson

My fourth birthday, I was given a violin, and my fifth birthday, a guitar. I didn't start to play until I saw…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his…

— Robert Schumann

I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in…

— Eric Hutchinson

The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is…

— Mstislav Rostropovich

The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she…

— Jacques Roumain

“What are these?" Maxon asked, brushing across the tips of my fingers as we walked. "Calluses. They're from pressing down on violin…

— Kiera Cass

Math is the beautiful, rich, joyful, playful, surprising, frustrating, humbling and creative art that speaks to something transcendental. It is worthy of…

— James Tanton

When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way…

— Lewis B. Smedes

“How insufficient the memory, to fail before death. how will hear these notes when the train slides into the yard, the lights…

— Ocean Vuong

People have their own interests and they want to play a certain kind of music. People want to play in orchestras. They…

— Henry Threadgill

Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis'…

— Victor Hugo

“He is about to hand the earphone to Jutta when—clear and unblemished, about halfway down the coil—he hears the quick, drastic strikes…

— Anthony Doerr

Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along

— E. M. Forster

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

— E. M. Forster

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

— Leila Josefowicz

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his…

— Winston Churchill

Violin was my first form of expression - and is still in a lot of ways.

— Amanda Shires

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

— Honore de Balzac

Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a good harmony

— Lucy 'Aisy

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.

— Ronnie Milsap

Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.

— Jason Bateman

However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again.

— Arjuna Ardagh

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the…

— Richard Steele

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on…

— Marilyn Monroe

I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.

— Rahsaan Roland Kirk

He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless.

— Cassandra Clare

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any…

— Alain de Botton

Oh so it was some festival that had Darth playing a violin?? What the heck?

— Amber Hope