Violinist Quotes
43 quotes by 38 authors
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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
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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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
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Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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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
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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
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There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.
— Gyorgy Ligeti
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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.
— Yehudi Menuhin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This young man is an exceptionally gifted and talented violinist ... He is a first class talent ...
— Ruggiero Ricci
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Violinist Quotes
38 authors contributed a total of 43 Violinist Quotes, led by these top contributors: