Music Violins Quotes

#1. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing [ ... ] and you will find all manner of dishonor.

Khaled Hosseini

#2. Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become.

Margaret Atwood

#3. All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.

Walt Whitman

#4. Every single one of us 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.

Barbara Sher

#5. Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for _the impossible_.

Namsoon Kang

#6. I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.

Fredrik Bajer

#7. A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile ... the reason violinists play violins that are hundreds of years old. The wood learns to sing.

Dave Genn

#8. Look At How You Feel About What Happened In The Past. Learn Something Valuable From It. Use What You Have Learned To Make Your Work And Life More Enjoyable Today.

Spencer Johnson

#9. What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

Anita Brookner

#10. There's no reason why everyone has to listen to records in hi-fi. Having the violins on the left and the bass on the right doesn't make the music more profound. It's just a more complex way of stimulating a bored imagination.

Haruki Murakami

#11. A thousand violins cloy very rapidly without percussion.

John Fowles

#12. When it comes to orchestral music, whenever I see a concert with orchestra and strings, and I arrive and there are speakers up, my heart always sinks a little bit, and I think, 'It's going to be down to some sound guy's ideas.' Contact microphones on the violins. I'm a purist, I suppose.

Jonny Greenwood

#13. Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

Garrison Keillor

#14. It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music.

Honore De Balzac

#15. Often we find it easier to think our way around things rather than to feel our way through them:

Mark Nepo

#16. Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.

David Robinson

#17. My heart makes the decision without me and tries to get to her the fastest way possible.

Karen Marie Moning

#18. We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.

Herbert Otto Gille

#19. 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

#20. The sage as astronomer. - As long as you still feel the stars as something 'above you', you have not yet acquired the gaze of a man of deep understanding.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

Barbara Sher

#22. 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.

Honore De Balzac

#23. Get a little practice. See what it feels like to drive a knife through my heart. Relish it. Watch the light fade from my eyes, stare into my dying, taste it, see how you like it. There's a moment in death that is unlike anything else in all existence.

Karen Marie Moning