Bridge Quote by Wayne Shorter

I never heard anything so brilliant in my life as I did that first time I heard Ornette. He played like some revolutionary angel.…

— Charlie Haden

I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and…

— Freddie Hubbard

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each…

— Miles Davis

Ornette Coleman is a real musician. He takes all of the things he's thinking about in the world - which is a whole universe…

— Patti Smith

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he…

— Guy Clark

[Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin.

— Stephane Grappelli

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

I was actually the head of the violin after-school club. And then I was also the head of the dance club, the popping club.…

— Henry Lau

“He was also talented in other directions: he played the violin well and was an accomplished artist, exhibiting at, among others, the Chicago Art…

— David Kahn

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

— Robert Schumann

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!

— Birdy

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens,…

— Zubin Mehta