Violin Quotes

236 Violin quotes by 186 unique authors

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody… — Conor Oberst
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. — S. J. Perelman
I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day. — Itzhak Perlman
I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the orchestra, and when… — Josh Radnor
You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're… — John C. Reilly
Love is not love, without a violin playing goat. — Julia Roberts
Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat. — Julia Roberts
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
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
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
The older the violin, the sweeter the music. — Larry McMurtry
if a violin string could ache, i would be that string. — Vladimir Nabokov
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
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
There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm... — James O'Barr
There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway. — Daniel Handler
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
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
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
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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