Able Quote by Marilyn vos Savant

[When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes. And others…

— Marilyn vos Savant

I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two…

— Joely Fisher

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

— Anne Rice

Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away…

— Richard Steele

Walk my way and a thousand violins begin to play, or it might be the sound of your hello.

— Johnny Mathis

I don't sleep with a violin in my bed, but there is something very magical about the instrument. You open up the case; it's…

— Joshua Bell

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

— George Eliot

A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of…

— Dave Genn

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.

— Wim Wenders

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

— Barbara Sher

“He is about to hand the earphone to Jutta when—clear and unblemished, about halfway down the coil—he hears the quick, drastic strikes of a…

— Anthony Doerr