Disagreeable Quote by Richard Steele

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.

— Anonymous

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

— Robert Schumann

When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is…

— Ruggiero Ricci

…the violin — that most human of all instruments…

— Louisa May Alcott

No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it.

— Jim Fiebig

The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.

— Jose Mourinho

There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A violin should be played with love, or not at all.

— Joseph Wechsberg

“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

However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again.

— Arjuna Ardagh

I am privileged to be at the right end of violins: not the end holding it but to listen to it.

— Roger Moore

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought

— Helen Keller