Violin Quotes - Page 4

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

For one movie, I'm learning to play a violin, and I had never picked up a violin in my life. That's a big challenge. That's what I see as one of the advantages of this business. You get to do things you'd never do, in a normal lifestyle.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.

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.

Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

We are so not breaking out the violins and pity partying.

For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! I'm starting to learn guitar.

I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didnt really like the violin. I was only doing it because I could, and I was good at it, and everyone was encouraging me. But I didnt have a great love for it.

I don't think there is any end to translucence. It's an endless journey, rather like playing the violin.

Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.