Violin Quotes

236 Violin quotes by 186 unique authors

For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium;… — Stewart Brand
The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach… — Steve Lacy
I could spit dust I'm so mad. He wants to put violins on my new session. I'll die before I'll go all the way pop. — Patsy Cline
We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't… — John Lennon
I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A… — Debbie Harry
I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well. — Evelyn Glennie
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. — Edmond de Goncourt
It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? — Albert Einstein
I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you… — Kevin Eubanks
I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played… — Quincy Jones
When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you… — Michio Kaku
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other… — Edward Lear
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. — John Lubbock
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. — Neville Marriner
There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising. — Wynton Marsalis
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin? — Marilyn Monroe
The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine. — Jose Mourinho
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I… — Georgia O'Keeffe

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