Violin Quotes
236 Violin quotes by 186 unique authors
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I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about…
— Noah Cicero
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I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.
— Leila Josefowicz
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Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in…
— Oswald Chambers
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Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.
— Wim Wenders
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I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do…
— Albert Einstein
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If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
— Andy Summers
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To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that…
— Bobby Vinton
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If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves doing, one must…
— Yehudi Menuhin
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The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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If you know the music the moment the violin string begins to vibrate, then you know how to navigate through the forest of brambles and…
— John Daido Loori
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But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to…
— N. T. Wright
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I use to think that the friction was a bad thing. Everything is to ease pain in our society; pain is very much the enemy.…
— Jon Foreman
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I practice three hours daily on my violin so I won't get worse.
— Jack Benny
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We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability…
— Judith Stone
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Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?
— Andres Segovia
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I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.
— Louis Prima
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When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person…
— David Del Tredici
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My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but…
— Louis Prima
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I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.
— Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my…
— Anthony Burgess
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My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the…
— Fiona Shaw
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A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such…
— William James
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If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.
— Amar Bose
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Who Wrote These Violin Quotes
186 authors contributed a total of 236 Violin Quotes, led by these top contributors: