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

 

I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.-Paul Desmond

 

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

 

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

 

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.-Jacques Yves Cousteau

 

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.-Guy Clark

 

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.-Lara St. John

 

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

 

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.-Julia Roberts

 

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.-S. J. Perelman

 

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.-Neville Marriner

 

My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.-Louis Prima

 

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.-Fiona Shaw

 

No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it.-Jim Fiebig

 

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.-Ruggiero Ricci

 

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.-Georgia O'Keeffe

 

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.-Pierre Schaeffer

 

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

 

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.-Honore de Balzac

 

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.-Steve Lacy

 

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

 

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. - Unknown

 

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around... - Unknown

 

I am looking for ways of merging my voice with the orchestra, of tuning it with a clarinet, a tenor oboe, a violin. - Unknown

 

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Unknown

 

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. - Unknown

 

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music. - Unknown

 

When I was five I had violin lessons. - Unknown

 

When I was five I had violin lessons. - Unknown

 

I would go on the bus by myself; I couldn't even read with my violin under my arm, but it was a learning experience and I ultimately persevered. – Unknown

 

can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do- Unknown

 

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music. – Unknown

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. – Unknown

 

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it. – Unknown

 

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music. – Unknown

 

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. – Unknown

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? – Unknown

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. – Unknown

 

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

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.-Honore de Balzac

 

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

 

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

 

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.-Jascha Heifetz

 

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.-Jascha Heifetz

 

I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.-Niccolo Paganini

 

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. – Unknown

 

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

 

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring- Unknown

 

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