Violinist Quotes

43 quotes by 38 authors

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs… — Honore de Balzac
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is… — Peter Drucker
Whether you want to be the top violinist or a CEO, strangely enough, hard work and perseverance can overcome a lot of things. — J Clifford Hudson
Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists — Mikhail Botvinnik
But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to… — Yiyun Li
I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that… — Pablo Casals
There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer. — Gyorgy Ligeti
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet. — Yehudi Menuhin
The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth… — Yehudi Menuhin
When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse… — Ruggiero Ricci
Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you… — Ruggiero Ricci
It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had… — Ruggiero Ricci
This young man is an exceptionally gifted and talented violinist ... He is a first class talent ... — Ruggiero Ricci
A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they… — Sally Kirkland
Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a successful… — Robert Greenberg
The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks, the solo violinist… — Thomas Powers
I called the great French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and I said 'So, who's the new cat? Who's got the stuff? And he said Zach Brock. — Stanley Clarke
I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It… — Nigel Kennedy
Im one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. Im just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them… — Eugene Ormandy

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