If you play something well, I don't care what it is. I mean, I don't play an electric [violin] - I tried.… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached. — Jacob Braude Copy Share Image
“The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it. — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
“The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for… — Charles-Auguste de Beriot Copy Share Image
I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors,… — Noah Cicero Copy Share Image
I played the violin from a very young age but would love to be able to sit down in a bar at… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it… — Dave Genn Copy Share Image
If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,'… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies & played the violin: but one of the twins died,… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
We developed our own type of Igudesman and Joo electric violin, let's say, and funny enough, the shape of it was developed… — Aleksey Igudesman Copy Share Image
I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?' I looked… — Sirena Huang Copy Share Image
Wo wei ni xie de,” he said, as he raised the violin to his left shoulder, tucking it under his chin. He… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Well, I’ve been a musician my whole life. When I was two, I would sing the theme from Star Wars in my… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Your violin has only two strings,” I say. “You’re missing the other two.” Yes, he says. He’s well aware. “All I want… — Steve Lopez Copy Share Image
“For me, you are fresh water that falls from trees when it has stopped raining. For me, you are cinnamon that lingers… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Edgar Meyer's violin concerto was the first piece of contemporary music I worked on in any depth. I was 18 or 19. — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I played the violin my whole life. I wanted to play from the time I was just a little kid, and I've… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the… — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
I use to think that the friction was a bad thing. Everything is to ease pain in our society; pain is very… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history… — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
When I was eight, an uncle, great uncle, gave a violin to me, and my father took me off to have lessons.… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
Some songs are just going to be acoustic with just maybe some light background stuff going on and maybe violin or something… — Phillip Phillips Copy Share Image
An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
I started playing the violin at age 3, and I was very fortunate because there were people who heard me who were… — Phil Ramone Copy Share Image
Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves.… — Philippe Kahn Copy Share Image
My mum would take us to ballet, and we used to go as a family to Brownies. My dad used to take… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
“The violin wasn't alive. It wasn't a baby or an animal, not living. But that would be easier to believe if I… — Jessica Martinez Copy Share Image
Through the violin, I speak to people, and my violin is my favourite partner in my musical life, definitely. Without my violin,… — Vanessa Mae Copy Share Image