Best Violin Lines
236 Violin quotes by 186 unique authors
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Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.
— Julia Roberts
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Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
— Julia Roberts
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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
— Robert Schumann
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight…
— Patrick Swayze
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My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six…
— Felicia Day
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The older the violin, the sweeter the music.
— Larry McMurtry
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if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look…
— E. M. Forster
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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we…
— Victor Hugo
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There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm...
— James O'Barr
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There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.
— Daniel Handler
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On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of…
— Leonard Cohen
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Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared…
— Laurie R. King
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The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for…
— C.S. Lewis
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Every night I give a violin recital for six hours, and attendance is mandatory. The word 'mandatory' means that if you don't show up, you…
— Daniel Handler
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Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch…
— Leonard Cohen
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The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing…
— Elie Wiesel
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When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course, he saw that…
— Ian Mcewan
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It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare:…
— Oscar Wilde
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I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds;…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and…
— Daniel Handler
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I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.
— Jodi Picoult
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There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along
— E. M. Forster
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