Violins Quotes
32 quotes by 31 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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A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.
— Laurie Colwin
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With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows.
— John Townsend Trowbridge
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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
— George Eliot
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Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs…
— Margaret Atwood
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Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are…
— Barbara Sher
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
— Barbara Sher
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In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First…
— Freda Bright
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I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about…
— Noah Cicero
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Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.
— Wim Wenders
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To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that…
— Bobby Vinton
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.
— Garrison Keillor
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Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with…
— Anne Dudley
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Walk my way and a thousand violins begin to play, or it might be the sound of your hello.
— Johnny Mathis
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One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice,…
— Marilyn vos Savant
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Violins Quotes
31 authors contributed a total of 32 Violins Quotes, led by these top contributors: