Top 11 Mendelssohn Violin Quotes
#1. 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
#2. But to give him anything to drink was impossible, or would have been so had not the landlord bored a reed, and putting one end in his mouth poured the wine into him through the other; all which he bore with patience rather than sever the ribbons of his helmet.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#3. [Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner belonged to] that small army of brave people who made it their duty, without thought of themselves or hope or expectation of reward, to strive for unpopular causes.
[Chapman Cohen on the death of noted freethinker and peace advocate Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner]
Chapman Cohen
#4. The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
John Mortimer
#5. I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.
Lara Stone
#6. Formerly it was perceived in a person that on some occasion he wanted to think-it was perhaps the exception !-that he now wanted to become wiser and collected his mind on a thought:
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. I want everybody to be happy because, if you're happy, you are more open to other people. Don't let misery bring you down.
Angelique Kidjo
#8. The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven's. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The richest, the most seductive, was written by Max Bruch. But the most inward, the heart's jewel, is Mendelssohn's.
Joseph Joachim
#10. We don't get any marks for effort like in ice-skating.
Kevin Keegan
#11. The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.
Charles Williams
