Violin Quotes

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

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.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

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.

The violin - that most human of all instruments.

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.

Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.

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

If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

I practice three hours daily on my violin so I won't get worse.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.

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.

He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case

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.

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

[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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

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.

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.

I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin.

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.

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.

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.

Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists

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.

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.

One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.

Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.

I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.