Violins Quotes

32 Violins quotes by 31 unique 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
A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins. — Laurie Colwin
With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows. — John Townsend Trowbridge
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio. — George Eliot
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
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
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music. — Barbara Sher
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… — Unknown Author
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
Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins. — Wim Wenders
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
The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there. — Garrison Keillor
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
Walk my way and a thousand violins begin to play, or it might be the sound of your hello. — Johnny Mathis
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
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
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
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
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
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
It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare:… — Oscar Wilde
The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and… — Daniel Handler
I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame. — Jodi Picoult
To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more… — William Nicholson

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