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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
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music. -- Barbara Sher
I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well. -- Evelyn Glennie
Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together. -- Andrew Bird
To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it. -- Bobby Vinton
I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now. -- Vera Farmiga
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
Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle. -- Anne Dudley
If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal. -- Lykke Li
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do. -- Barbara Sher
I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. -- Quincy Jones
You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience. -- John C. Reilly
You have those songs that are very special to you that you don't want to get ruined by production. Something like 'Start Again' shouldn't be touched. It's a classic-sounding song on a piano and violins and harmonies, and I think those songs are perfect as they are. -- Conrad Sewell
When it comes to orchestral music, whenever I see a concert with orchestra and strings, and I arrive and there are speakers up, my heart always sinks a little bit, and I think, 'It's going to be down to some sound guy's ideas.' Contact microphones on the violins. I'm a purist, I suppose. -- Jonny Greenwood
Instruments are a phenomenal investment, especially violins and violas and celli, because the value really doesn't go down, and it just rises up at incredible speed and has done, and I believe will continue to do so, because these rare instruments are not getting more. They are getting less and less through the years. -- Aleksey Igudesman
The violin is very beautiful. Some people relate it as the shape of a lady, but, whether you like it or not, it's been so for more than 400 years, unlike modern stuff that easily looks dated. But I think it's very personal and unique that, although each violin looks pretty similar, that no two violins sound the same. -- Sirena Huang
A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins. -- Laurie Colwin
We are so not breaking out the violins and pity partying. -- Gena Showalter
The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there. -- Garrison Keillor
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio. -- George Eliot
Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio. -- George Eliot
Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins. -- Wim Wenders
Walk my way and a thousand violins begin to play, or it might be the sound of your hello. -- Johnny Mathis
With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows. -- John Townsend Trowbridge
I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame. -- Jodi Picoult
Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and roll? -- Joan Jett
I could spit dust I'm so mad. He wants to put violins on my new session. I'll die before I'll go all the way pop. -- Patsy Cline
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. -- George Eliot
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. -- Marilyn vos Savant
[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
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
Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become. -- Margaret Atwood
I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests. -- Noah Cicero

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