Violin Quotes

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.

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

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

When I was five I had violin lessons.

I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.

Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of the foremost interpreters of Bach for the violin.

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.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

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.

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.

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.

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

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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.

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

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

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

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

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

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?

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

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

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

I tried to learn the violin for a while.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

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.

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.'