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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments. -- Christian McKay
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty. -- John Philip Sousa
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music. -- Honore de Balzac
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet. -- Yehudi Menuhin
The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm -- Leonard Bernstein
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
Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you're a rock and roll musician. Whereas if I were a violinist, it might be a little different. -- Slash
Im one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. Im just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play. -- Eugene Ormandy
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within. -- Gustave Flaubert
My first hip-hop performance was at Carnegie Hall with Wyclef, ... I got a little feature and he announced me as the 'hip-hop violinist.' The next night I played at the Apollo. -- Miri Ben-Ari
If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words. -- Marlo Thomas
You are the hip-hop violinist, the creator, the visionaire, ... and therefore you should do whatever the hell you wanna do because whatever you do is right. They're not gonna have like 20 hip-hop violinists in the company. I know what to do. -- Miri Ben-Ari
A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile... the reason violinists play violins that are hundreds of years old. The wood learns to sing. -- Dave Genn
The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well. -- Peter Drucker
A famous violinist once said. Music transcends words. By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words. -- KAORI
I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a note, an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out, one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be. -- Natalie Portman
The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult. -- Uta Hagen
Without even knowing it, we are assaulted by a high note of urgency all the time. We end up pacing ourselves to the city rhythm whether or not it's our own. In time we even grow hard of hearing to the rest of the world. Like a violinist stuck next to the timpani, we may lose the ability to hear our own instrument. -- Ellen Goodman
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet. -- Yehudi Menuhin
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia. -- Pete Seeger
At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist. -- George Duke
I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family. -- Leonard Slatkin
That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra. -- Anne Rice
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within. -- Yehudi Menuhin
I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play. -- Eugene Ormandy
Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you have to know these styles. -- Ruggiero Ricci
When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down. -- Ruggiero Ricci
My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor. -- Peter Dinklage
A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer. -- Sally Kirkland
I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more. -- Ji-Hae Park
I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist. -- Ellen Barkin
I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and we travelled down from the Midlands for the last night of the School Proms. We played some pieces from the Harry Potter films, and the violin parts were really hard. -- Laura Mvula
Aleksey and I have gathered together a bunch of kindred spirits who are also versatile musicians. We have a violinist who eats fire, another who is an acrobat, and a flutist who beats boxes. We hope in years to come to tour the U.S. with our 'League of X-traordinary musicians.' -- Richard Hyung-ki Joo
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, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it. -- Zubin Mehta
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Hello again, violinist,' he said in a hoarse voice. 'Fancy meeting you here. -- Regina Doman
I felt as out of place as a left-handed violinist in a crowded string section. -- Chic Murray
This young man is an exceptionally gifted and talented violinist ... He is a first class talent ... -- Ruggiero Ricci
I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know. -- Meryl Streep
There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
Whether you want to be the top violinist or a CEO, strangely enough, hard work and perseverance can overcome a lot of things. -- J Clifford Hudson
I called the great French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and I said 'So, who's the new cat? Who's got the stuff? And he said Zach Brock. -- Stanley Clarke
The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within. -- Yehudi Menuhin
Sometimes I think of blogging as finger exercises for a violinist; sometimes I think of it as mulching a garden. It is incredibly useful and helpful to my "real" writing. -- Kate Christensen
Scott Tixier is an exciting young jazz violinist and is making an international name for himself. I heard him in France and was immediately struck by his individuality and his sound. -- Marcus Miller
My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five. -- Michala Petri

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