Violin Quotes

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

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

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

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

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

here is no competition of sounds Between a nightingale and a violin.

Between 1994 and the year 2000, when the Republican majority was in control of the House of Representatives, President Clinton played House Speaker Newt Gringrich like a violin!

I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo that's - it's a bit showoff-y, but it's fun, so who cares?

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.

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

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

I don't want to discredit people's opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where you have to learn tons of chords, that's much more difficult.

Every night I give a violin recital for six hours, and attendance is mandatory. The word 'mandatory' means that if you don't show up, you have to buy me a large bag of candy and watch me eat it.

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.

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 don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

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

The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing his life...He played that which he would never play again.

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.

When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.

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

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

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

I remember my mum saying to me, 'You can give up the violin - when you've done Grade 8.' Which is the highest grade, and the most unfair target ever. So I did all the grades, just to annoy her.

I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated.

I grew up a fat kid in a small town in Minnesota who was a tomboy and happened to play a mean violin. My goal was to be a famous concert artist some day.

I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.

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

If you play something well, I don't care what it is. I mean, I don't play an electric [violin] - I tried. It's actually interesting.

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

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.

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

The girl doesn’t need a violin,” he added. “She needs to have her hands bound so she can never touch an instrument again.

I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.

When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire, 'Hey lovely, what you got there?' she said, 'Musicians who ask questions,' and kept on dragging.

I just woke up one day when I was six and I wanted to play the violin. Then, six years later, I didn't want to play the violin, but I wanted to sing and play the guitar.

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

I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.

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

I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.

I took four years of violin, but got bored of it - over the years, I've been ADD with instruments. The only two that I've really stayed true to are guitar and piano.

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

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

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.