Violin Quotes
236 Violin quotes by 186 unique authors
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When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way strings come with…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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When I was five I had violin lessons.
— Randy Bachman
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I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident,…
— Anton Seidl
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The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.
— Unknown Author
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Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there…
— Itzhak Perlman
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Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.
— Fred Allen
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In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First…
— Unknown Author
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When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.
— Joshua Bell
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The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven’s. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The richest, the most…
— Unknown Author
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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
Who Wrote These Violin Quotes
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