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It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. -- Neville Marriner
I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight. -- Ronnie Milsap
Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all. -- Luka Sulic
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
I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake up in the morning wanting to do it, or go to bed thinking about it. -- Ellen Hollman
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
My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around. -- Louis Prima
My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful. -- Quentin Bryce
We developed our own type of Igudesman and Joo electric violin, let's say, and funny enough, the shape of it was developed by the head technician of Steinway. It's actually an electric violin, which is made from the stick that holds up the piano lid. -- Aleksey Igudesman
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
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
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
I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?' I looked at that giant monster and said to myself - I am not going to lock myself on that bench the whole day. This is small and lightweight. I can play from standing, sitting or walking. -- Sirena Huang
Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice -- Charlie Chaplin
Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin. -- Michala Petri
My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff. -- Pete Seeger
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
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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
I quit piano and violin because it felt too rigid. It was just my thing, something I fell in love with from a very early age. -- Jillian Hervey
Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge. -- Mark Twain
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

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