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  • Love is not love, without a violin playing goat. -- Julia Roberts
  • Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. -- John Lubbock
  • Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. -- Vanessa Mae
  • The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. -- Victor Borge
  • The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac
  • Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. -- Samuel Butler
  • A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? -- Albert Einstein
  • 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
  • You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. -- Patrick Swayze
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  • I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
  • I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace. -- Edward Lear
  • I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie. -- Conor Oberst
  • I had studied violin from age 7 to 14. -- Amar Bose
  • Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin. -- Patrice Leconte
  • Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. -- S. J. Perelman
  • A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. -- Edmond de Goncourt
  • If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought. -- Helen Keller
  • 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
  • An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin? -- Marilyn Monroe
  • 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
  • Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both. -- Ethel Barrymore
  • The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece. -- Elliott Carter
  • If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there's about one way you can make it sound: like an oboe. -- John Corigliano
  • I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didnt really like the violin. I was only doing it because I could, and I was good at it, and everyone was encouraging me. But I didnt have a great love for it. -- B. D. Wong
  • I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen. -- Sue Townsend
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  • There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.' -- Aleksey Igudesman
  • The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad. -- Itzhak Perlman
  • 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
  • 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
  • I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing. -- Brendon Urie
  • When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story. -- Joshua Bell
  • Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer? -- Andres Segovia
  • I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day. -- Itzhak Perlman
  • It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
  • I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well. -- Kat Dennings
  • We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant. -- Gary Frank
  • My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin. -- Fiona Shaw
  • 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
  • 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
  • My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions. -- Felicia Day
  • When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you can tackle the problem with a fresh new insight. Einstein liked to play the violin to relax. Every physicist likes to have a past time. Mine is ice skating. -- Michio Kaku
  • You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.' -- Alison Krauss
  • The violin sings. -- Joshua Bell
  • Let the violin become a fiddle, boy. -- Gina Marinello-Sweeney
  • Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat. -- Julia Roberts
  • When I was five I had violin lessons. -- Randy Bachman
  • The older the violin, the sweeter the music. -- Larry McMurtry
  • I tried to learn the violin for a while. -- Peter Wright
  • if a violin string could ache, i would be that string. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • A violin should be played with love, or not at all. -- Joseph Wechsberg
  • Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice -- Charlie Chaplin
  • I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin. -- Joshua Bell
  • I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin. -- Edwin Land
  • Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse. -- Elie Wiesel
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  • There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin. -- Dejan Stojanovic
  • Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair. -- Alan Watts
  • Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair. -- Alan Watts
  • A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin? -- Ludwig van Beethoven
  • I practice three hours daily on my violin so I won't get worse. -- Jack Benny
  • I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case -- Tomas Transtromer
  • I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played. -- Andre Rieu
  • I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire. -- Leila Josefowicz
  • Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor. -- Jason Bateman
  • It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You.' -- Eddie Dean
  • My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff. -- Pete Seeger
  • Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin. -- Michala Petri
  • He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played. -- Cassandra Clare
  • Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound. -- Andrew Bird
  • For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin. -- Freeman Dyson
  • I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! I'm starting to learn guitar. -- Birdy
  • The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. -- Neal A. Maxwell
  • I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well. -- Alison Krauss
  • At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin. -- Noel Redding
  • As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark -- Peggy Fleming
  • I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin. -- Albert Einstein
  • However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again... -- Arjuna Ardagh
  • I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise. -- Noel Redding
  • The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin. -- Jessie Andrews
  • What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do. -- Joshua Bell
  • Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached. -- Jacob Braude
  • Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice. -- Alain de Botton
  • I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight. -- Ronnie Milsap
  • Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists -- Mikhail Botvinnik
  • I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant. -- Peter Dinklage
  • When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat. -- Fred Allen
  • I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff. -- Louis Prima
  • A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul. -- Stendhal
  • I know the lead singer of System of a Down, and I record violin tracks with him. -- David Alpay
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  • I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age. -- Paul Desmond
  • Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. -- Neville Marriner
  • Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live! -- Dev Hynes
  • Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti." -- Neville Marriner
  • I don't think there is any end to translucence. It's an endless journey, rather like playing the violin. -- Arjuna Ardagh
  • Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin. -- Andrew Bird
  • If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order. -- Jascha Heifetz
  • I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger. -- Aleksey Igudesman
  • I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose. -- Rahsaan Roland Kirk
  • Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along -- E. M. Forster
  • If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger. -- Andy Summers
  • A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
  • If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting. -- Leila Josefowicz
  • He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless. -- Cassandra Clare
  • [Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin. -- Stephane Grappelli
  • Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer? -- Andres Segovia
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  • Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all. -- Luka Sulic
  • There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway. -- Daniel Handler
  • 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
  • I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five. -- Vanessa Mae
  • A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for. -- Josephine Baker
  • So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull refrain.... -- John Ashbery
  • Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time. -- Joseph Campbell
  • When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin. -- Richard Steele
  • One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement. -- Winston Churchill
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