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The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven’s. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The richest, the…

— Joseph Joachim

I do remember realizing one day that I loved plays more than I loved playing concertos.

— John Cariani

If I were to run around the world playing just the cello concertos - and believe me, I love playing them - I would…

— David Finckel

Looking back on it now, I felt that I was blessed much like the masters, I guess - the guys who wrote the concertos.

— Roy Orbison

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

— Leila Josefowicz

And I also think it's a violin when you're selling it and a fiddle when you're buying it.

— Amanda Shires

Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of…

— Nigel Kennedy

“I don't need to sleep to play. I'm crazy anyway. Being crazier still could only help.”

— Anne Rice

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

— Joshua Bell

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

— Noel Redding

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before.…

— Brendon Urie

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to…

— Patrick Swayze