Stepping stones Quote by Pat Lowery Collins

“Until she walked into my life I was simply a violin of rusted notes. In one night she rearranged the mess inside me, exposing…

— Poppet

“If I had to sit with a Mr Unavailable and listen to his sob story, you would see me rubbing the tips of my…

— Natalie Lue

“The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world's smallest violin starts to play.”

— J.A. Redmerski

“If all would play first violin, we could not obtain an orchestra. Therefore esteem every musician in his place.”

— Robert Schumann

“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

“where do you want to go? Back to violinist. I want to hear songs about suicide.”

— Bethany Griffin

“In the hands of someone who does not appreciate or understand music, the instrument is just a lump of wood, but in the hands…

— Jason Luke

“Let the violin become a fiddle, boy.”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

“Talking to him was like playing upon an exquisite violin.”

— Oscar Wilde

“At that moment a solitary violin struck up. But the music was not dance music; it was more like a song - a solemn,…

— Jennifer Paynter

“The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The truth is,…

— J.A. Redmerski

“At first he had appreciated only the material quality of the sounds which those instruments secreted. And it had been a source of keen…

— Marcel Proust