Violin Quotes

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

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.

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.

The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

The violin - that most human of all instruments.

Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.

A violin should be played with love, or not at all.

If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

I practice three hours daily on my violin so I won't get worse.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.

I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

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.

To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.

He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless.

However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again.

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.

Wo wei ni xie de,” he said, as he raised the violin to his left shoulder, tucking it under his chin. He had told her many violinists used a shoulder rest, but he did not: there was a slight mark on the side of his throat, like a permanent bruise, where the violin rested. “You — made something for me?” Tessa asked. “I wrote something for you,” he corrected, with a smile, and began to play.