Quotes of: Violins Keyword

I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.

Andre Rieu

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

Andy Summers

My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor.

Peter Dinklage

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

Leila Josefowicz

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

Vanessa Mae

Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.

Andrew Bird

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

Luka Sulic

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

Neville Marriner

Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.

Life

Very touching," said a voice from the stairway. "Do you want me to imitate a violin?" - Damon

L.J. Smith

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.

Ethel Barrymore

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

Dev Hynes

There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'

Aleksey Igudesman

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

It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.

Caroline Shaw

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

Edmond de Goncourt

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

Evelyn Glennie

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

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Alain de Botton

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.

Wynton Marsalis

To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink printed on paper.

Forlorn Passions