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I've been really fortunate to work with a lot of really talented people from different corners of the music world... it keeps things inspiring…

— Matthew Koma

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.

— Pete Seeger

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

— Andrew Bird

I began as a violinist, not a composer. Thus my contact with orchestral musicians, with the source of music, is very important.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Through the violin, I speak to people, and my violin is my favourite partner in my musical life, definitely. Without my violin, I don't…

— Vanessa Mae

I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.

— Leonard Slatkin

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens,…

— Zubin Mehta

I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.

— Christian McKay

I love to work with all composers as that gives an artist variety.

— Kumar Sanu

This young man is an exceptionally gifted and talented violinist ... He is a first class talent ...

— Ruggiero Ricci

In my youth I wanted to be a concert violinist.

— Lorne Greene

I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!

— Will M Cook