Violin Quotes

236 Violin quotes by 186 unique authors

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
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
I practice three hours daily on my violin so I won't get worse. — Jack Benny
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
Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer? — Andres Segovia
I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff. — Louis Prima
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
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
I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose. — Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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
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
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
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
I had studied violin from age 7 to 14. — Amar Bose
The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there. — Garrison Keillor
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I injured myself quite badly when I was seventeen. I broke my ankle, and it didn't heal in such a way that I could keep… — Kristin Lehman
I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I… — Denise Van Outen
Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin. — Patrice Leconte

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