Early spring Quote by Rosslyn Elliott

“But here in the open air, this naked, solitary fiddle began a rhythm that played havoc with time, making patterns that set you to…

— Kristen D. Randle

“When at last I feel ready to tackle the whole of the piece, I begin slowly, delighting in the silvery tone of this violin…

— Pat Lowery Collins

He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played.

— Cassandra Clare

“Unwinding the white strips from our bodies, we let our sadness float to the ground. Women kicked their heels above their heads. Men twisted…

— Jabari Asim

“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

“I always thought that when it was your time, that you would be the one to hold the strings.”

— Vito Corleone

“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

“A Round of fiddles playing Bach.”

— Louis Zukofsky

“There were sharp little blows in the music, and waves of quick, fine notes that burst and rolled like the thin, clear ringing of…

— Ayn Rand

“Through him I could play the music I heard in my soul. I was the violin, he was the bow.”

— S. Jae-Jones

“Courtiers were supposed to sound musical when they spoke, their laughter like a harp chord and their sneezes like notes on a flute,”

— Sarah Beth Durst

“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