Air Quote by Bruce Molsky

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound. It's not trying to replace a band, per se.…

— Andrew Bird

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

— Andrew Bird

“More so than with any other instrument, the violin becomes part of the body. Good musicians are physically dissolved when playing, and for violinists,…

— Lavinia Greenlaw

The nice thing about the violin repertoire is that it's small enough that you can plan on learning everything at some point - whereas…

— Hilary Hahn

The violin sings.

— Joshua Bell

A cello can sound like so many instruments, but it's only one, you know, like a guitar; it has percussive qualities. It can sing…

— Luka Sulic

I realised, however, that you can't sing when you're playing the violin - or at least I can't - and as that aspect of…

— Freya Ridings

I'm definitely a singer, but I play. I write music too, but it's all coming from the same source. I have never learned an…

— Erik Hassle

“In the hands of someone who does not appreciate or understand music, the instrument is just a lump of wood, but in the hands…

— Jason Luke

It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities.

— Stjepan Hauser

I play violin it takes skill and heart

— Bani Bowen

The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of…

— Willard Van Orman Quine