Violin Quotes

236 Violin quotes by 186 unique authors

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul. — Stendhal
A parallel between color and music can only be relative â€“ just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades,… — Wassily Kandinsky
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are… — Barbara Sher
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music. — Barbara Sher
I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't… — Miroslav Vitous
If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order. — Jascha Heifetz
If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics,… — John Corigliano
I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five. — Vanessa Mae
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. — Vanessa Mae
I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi,… — Vanessa Mae
It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You.' — Unknown Author
Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with… — Ruggiero Ricci
I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than… — Lara St. John
Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would… — Lara St. John
It's no use practicing too much. First you have to find out how to do it best. You have to be able to invent ways… — Nathan Milstein
Math is the beautiful, rich, joyful, playful, surprising, frustrating, humbling and creative art that speaks to something transcendental. It is worthy of much exploration and… — Unknown Author
The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks, the solo violinist… — Thomas Powers
Tchaikovskyâ€™s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear. — Eduard Hanslick
Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice. — Alain de Botton
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying ï¬rst a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible.… — Marvin Minsky

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