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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music. -- Barbara Sher
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. -- Neville Marriner
Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all. -- Luka Sulic
I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot. -- Jane Chen
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
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
I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really enjoyed music. -- Jesse Spencer
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
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
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 guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so I always knew - I always knew that I wanted to do something that would allow me to be who I am. Generally, that was creatively, imaginatively. -- Reggie Watts
My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14. -- James Blunt
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
I've always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as my new novel, 'So Cold the River,' for which the brilliant strings piece 'Short Trip Home,' composed by Edgar Meyer and featuring the incredible Joshua Bell on violin, inspired much of the story. -- Michael Koryta
I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds - but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn't say, 'My God, that guy can play.' It'd probably sound more like Jack Benny. -- Jon Tester
The older the violin, the sweeter the music. -- Larry McMurtry
The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. -- Neal A. Maxwell
The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin. -- Jessie Andrews
Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached. -- Jacob Braude
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti." -- Neville Marriner
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
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