Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. — Vanessa Mae
I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin. — Joshua Bell
To play the violin for the buffalo to listen to. — Thai Proverbs
The violin - that most human of all instruments. — Louisa May Alcott
A violin should be played with love, or not at all. — Joseph Wechsberg
I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin. — Albert Einstein
When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story. — Joshua Bell
Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along. — E. M. Forster
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. — Samuel Butler
The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle. — 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
Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin? — Ludwig van Beethoven
From a broken violin do not expect fine music — Greek Proverbs
Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all. — Itzhak Perlman
I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do. — Julian Bream
Short Playing Violin Quotes
Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody. — Rumi
As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar. — Buffy Sainte-Marie
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. — Victor Borge
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul. — Stendhal
The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. — Neal A. Maxwell
I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps. — Amedeo Modigliani
The most important part of my religion is to play guitar. — Lou Reed
I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano. — Norman Wisdom
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.
Notting Hill Quotes
It snowed all day long, fortunately it didn't stay on the road. It was very, very cold today. Fortunately, the wind was at my back. The terrain was rolly but not big hills. The first miles were like usual tough, but I felt quite good from there till the end of 10 miles. — Terry Fox
We shall defend our land, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight in the woods, in the fields, on the beaches, in the cities and villages, in the streets, we shall fight in the hills... we shall fight on the spoil tips, on the banks of the Kalmius and the Dnieper. And we shall not surrender. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb. — Vaslav Nijinsky
Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
It is not raining to me,
It's raining daffodils;
In every dimpled drop I see
Wild flowers on distant hills. — Robert Loveman
I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death. — Rufus Wainwright
Never change your originality for the sake of others. Because no one can play your role better than you.
I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill. — Erma Bombeck
We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. — Luther Standing Bear
I went out in my goddamn underwear too! — Julia Roberts
Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours? — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Playing My Violin Quotes
Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble. — Anne Akiko Meyers
I'm incapable of functioning without music. I've always had it in my life. I played the violin when I was a kid, and my mother was a violinist at that point, so it's always been important to me in one way or another. When I work, there's always music cranking. — Peter Dundas
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
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand ~Randy Pausch
It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You.' — Eddie Dean
I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin. — Andrew Bird
I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee. — Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes difference.
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
Walk my way and a thousand violins begin to play, or it might be the sound of your hello. — Johnny Mathis
I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. — Vanessa Mae
Violinist Quotes
Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself. — Itzhak Perlman
The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm — Leonard Bernstein
Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is. — Isaac Stern
I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
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
But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a space next to oneself to be filled by others - a friend, a lover, a toy poodle, a violinist on the radio. — Yiyun Li
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
The zenith of virtuosity, a violinist like Jascha Heifetz, the supernatural in a pianist like Vladimir Horowitz, these are performers who were so idiosyncratic and personal that to imitate them would be like filling somebody else's bottle with your wine. — David Finckel
Music Violin Quotes
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
The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin. — Jessie Andrews
God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. . . . God will tutor us by trying us because He loves us, not because of indifference! — Neal A. Maxwell
And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross. — Leonard Cohen
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. — Neville Marriner
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
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
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. — Unknown
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music. — Barbara Sher
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
Viola Quotes
I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful. — Jean Sibelius
Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses? — Adam Johnson
What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, "You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in." — Denzel Washington
I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come. — Patrick Ness
As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves! — Jan Karon
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
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand. — Twyla Tharp
I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder. — Gavin Bryars
I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream. — Blythe Danner
While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune. — Bear McCreary
Playing Piano Quotes
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference. — Harry S. Truman
Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music. — Sergei Rachmaninoff
Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. — George Balanchine
Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel! — Frederic Chopin
A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb. — Marilyn Monroe
Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. — Tom Lehrer
Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards. — Vladimir Horowitz
When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. — Bob Hope
I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house! — George Clooney
If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved. — Future
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
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
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
If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves doing, one must do everyday. It should be as easy to the artist and as natural as flying is to a bird. And you can’t imagine a bird saying well, I’m tired today, I’m not going to fly! — Yehudi Menuhin
The violin doesn’t play for everybody. — Polish Proverbs
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
Math is the beautiful, rich, joyful, playful, surprising, frustrating, humbling and creative art that speaks to something transcendental. It is worthy of much exploration and examination because it is intrinsically beautiful, nothing more to say. Why play the violin? Because it is beautiful! Why engage in math? Because it too is beautiful! — James Tanton
Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you. — Hal Linden
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. — Honore de Balzac
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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. — Edmond de Goncourt
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice. — Alain de Botton
A violin is nothing more than a piece of wood and a dead cat. But it's a piece of technology. So when computers came along, in the '70s, I suddenly thought, hang on a second, this is interesting. These things can become an instrument. So I just became very interested in them, and started, playing with electronics. — Hans Zimmer
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
However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again. — Arjuna Ardagh
I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus. — John Lennon
We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it. — Sayings
There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm. — James O'Barr
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
When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line. — David Del Tredici
Love is not love, without a violin playing goat. — Julia Roberts
Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things. — Ruggiero Ricci
To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending. — Freeman Dyson
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
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
He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played. — Cassandra Clare
There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat. — Julia Roberts
No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it. — Jim Fiebig
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
I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff. — Louis Prima
I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put a piece of music in front of me now, I would probably know the notes, but not the timing, how they're supposed to be played, and I just don't know how to read chords. If I'd stuck with it, I'd probably have more jobs. — Petra Haden
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