Violin Quotes - Page 3

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.

Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.

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.

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.

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

I don't want somebody who writes like me [in my writing staff]. Because I can write like me. I know what I'm capable of and what my limitations are. If you're going to build an orchestra, you don't want all tubas - you want a violin and you want a cello and you want a drum set.

[Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin.

When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down.

I tried to learn the violin for a while.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark

I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.

Years ago, I heard an interview with violinist Yehudi Menuhin. The interviewer said, "Do you still practice?" And he said, "I practice every day." He said, "If I skip a day, I can hear it. If I skip two days, the conductor can hear it. And if I skip three days, the audience can hear it." Oh, yes, you have to keep that muscle firm.

He was gazing at her, the way one did when one felt one was unobserved. He had that look on his face, the look he usually got only when he was playing the violin, as if he were completely caught up and entranced.

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.

A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

As far as I remember, there was no actual lyric written to that.At the very beginning of "Fiddler on the Roof," there's a violin solo, an unaccompanied violin solo.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.