Big Quote by Caroline Shaw

The violin didn't keep me from doing things I wanted to do.

— Hilary Hahn

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

— Ludwig van Beethoven

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is…

— Kathryn Hulme

You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But,…

— John C. Reilly

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

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

It's been really fun to see what happens to my body when I don't have an instrument attached to it.

— Maggie Rogers

I've always had an instrument attached to my body.

— Maggie Rogers

There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.

— Peter Sellers

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

— Josephine Baker

I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.

— Louis Prima

If you play something well, I don't care what it is. I mean, I don't play an electric [violin] - I tried. It's actually…

— Itzhak Perlman