1.
The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.
Neal A. Maxwell
2.
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
Vanessa Mae
3.
Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.
Hal Linden
4.
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
John Lubbock
5.
Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin.
David Garrett
6.
I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.
Albert Einstein
8.
The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.
Jessie Andrews
9.
Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.
Wim Wenders
11.
If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.
Jascha Heifetz
12.
I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.
Joshua Bell
13.
Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
E. M. Forster
14.
I practice three hours daily on my violin so I won't get worse.
Jack Benny
15.
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
Alain de Botton
16.
Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?
Andres Segovia
18.
I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
19.
I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.
Tommy Cooper
20.
To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
Anton Chekhov
21.
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
22.
He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless.
Cassandra Clare
23.
However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again.
Arjuna Ardagh
24.
An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.
Daniel Barenboim
25.
Wo wei ni xie de,” he said, as he raised the violin to his left shoulder, tucking it under his chin. He had told her many violinists used a shoulder rest, but he did not: there was a slight mark on the side of his throat, like a permanent bruise, where the violin rested. “You — made something for me?” Tessa asked. “I wrote something for you,” he corrected, with a smile, and began to play.
Cassandra Clare
27.
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
Barbara Sher
28.
[When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes. And others are just washboards.
Marilyn vos Savant
29.
Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.
Arthur Conan Doyle
30.
I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way.
Daniel Barenboim
31.
He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played.
Cassandra Clare
32.
It was loud in spots and less loud in other spots, and it had that quality which I have noticed in all violin solos of seeming to last much longer than it actually did.
P. G. Wodehouse
34.
The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.
Mstislav Rostropovich
35.
Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.
Richard Steele
36.
I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin.
Itzhak Perlman
37.
Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble.
Anne Akiko Meyers
38.
Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.
Julia Roberts
39.
Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.
Rainer Maria Rilke
40.
Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists
Mikhail Botvinnik
41.
To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.
Freeman Dyson
42.
Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.
Ruggiero Ricci
43.
I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.
Leila Josefowicz
44.
I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.
Jodi Picoult
45.
Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
Julia Roberts
46.
Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
Lara St. John
47.
I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.
Noel Redding
49.
There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.
Wynton Marsalis
50.
I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.
Andrew Bird