Quote by Meg Howrey

“That’s the trouble these days, too much Sax and Violins in the theatre.”

— Tony Rattigan

“The truth of an orchestra is heard when they try to find their common notes before the show. All those strings and tubes and…

— Kelly Gardiner

“Oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and…

— Anthony Burgess

“There were tightly wound strings shivering in the air as the overture began in full.”

— E.K. Johnston

“I wanted the music to be full, to surround us, to lift us like the swell, so I rented a bloody orchestra. You only…

— Mark Helprin

“The horn . . . is the joint hardest instrument to learn. . . . (The other is the oboe).”

— Jasper Rees

“Rubbing at the bridge of his nose with his middle finger, Thorn snorted at his tirade. “Should I get my violin out? I feel…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“A thousand violins cloy very rapidly without percussion.”

— John Fowles

“In fact, is the idea of a serious comparison of American musicals and opera really so outrageous?”

— Lawrence W. Levine

“It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to…

— Honore de Balzac

“We are not written for one instrument alone.”

— André Aciman

“If there's anything I dislike it's the violin", she answered. "Why one should want to hear anyone scrape the hairs of a horse's tail…

— W. Somerset Maugham