Top 100 Quotes About The Violin
#1. The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad.
Itzhak Perlman
#2. He poured all his pain into the void of the violin and gently worked it out, turned it to beauty.
A.S. Peterson
#3. Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.
Andrew Bird
#4. I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated.
Gretchen Carlson
#5. One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#6. Sometimes the rain
falls
just for you and me
to be the violin
playing
in the background
of our loneliness's song.
Sanober Khan
#7. The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#8. 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
#9. Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
E. M. Forster
#10. There are days that I get neurotic with the violin. Every little adjustment will change the balance for good or for bad. It's kind of a miracle, the way the whole thing works as an acoustical whole, so perfectly balanced.
Joshua Bell
#11. All I could hear was the violin, and it was as if Juliek's soul had become his bow. He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future.
Elie Wiesel
#12. He studied Latin like the violin, because he liked it.
Robert Frost
#13. Who needs to be a Phoenix for rebirth? One simply requires themselves and an instrument to clean the slate and start over, perhaps create their own world where everything is better..
TheBakaViolinist
#14. Add to that six tables of cakes, ices, and punch bowls, a group of seven musicians playing the violin, three hundred candles, and who knew how many courtiers, and the result was a room that made Rachelle feel like she was being punched in the face just by looking at it.
Rosamund Hodge
#15. I have been known to say that the devil gave me my first violin.
Laini Taylor
#16. Music, I regret to say, affects me merely as an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds. Under certain emotional circumstances I can stand the spasms of a rich violin, but the concert piano and all wind instruments bore me in small doses and flay me in larger ones.
Vladimir Nabokov
#17. There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#18. I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus.
John Lennon
#20. I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free.
But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.
Rabindranath Tagore
#21. He was gazing at her, the way one did when one felt one was unobserved. He had that look on his face, the look he usually got only when he was playing the violin, as if he were completely caught up and entranced.
Cassandra Clare
#22. But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold - and yet if you'd never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn't believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed.
N. T. Wright
#23. Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.
Joseph Campbell
#24. 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
#25. I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?' I looked at that giant monster and said to myself - I am not going to lock myself on that bench the whole day. This is small and lightweight. I can play from standing, sitting or walking.
Sirena Huang
#26. I remember my mum saying to me, 'You can give up the violin - when you've done Grade 8.' Which is the highest grade, and the most unfair target ever. So I did all the grades, just to annoy her.
Gethin Jones
#27. I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake up in the morning wanting to do it, or go to bed thinking about it.
Ellen Hollman
#28. It was as if the voice of the violin sparked the wicks of each individual soul, jolting them from sleep.
Sophia Elaine Hanson
#29. I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.
Alison Krauss
#30. You've probably met moms like that. You say, "Yeah, I scored a goal in the soccer game last night." And she says, "Oh, that's nice. All fourteen of my children are the captains of their teams, and they make straight A's and can play the violin." And you just want to smack her.
Rick Riordan
#31. I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.
Gustavo Dudamel
#32. Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
Alain De Botton
#33. Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.
Eduard Hanslick
#34. I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
Adam Jones
#35. The violin wasn't alive. It wasn't a baby or an animal, not living.
But that would be easier to believe if I hadn't felt it breathe and sing.
Jessica Martinez
#36. Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder.
Alexandra Bracken
#37. Don't be disgusting.
Don't dare me. I majored in disgusting at Gulag Community College. Lucrezia Borgia taught cooking, and Madame Defarge taught knitting. Emperor Nero taught violin and also led the cheerleading squad. I skipped all my classes and failed with distinction.
Gregory Maguire
#38. 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
#39. I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Vanessa Mae
#40. I'm not crying about anything or anyone in particular. The life I live I created for myself, and I wouldn't want it any different. I cry because in the universe there is something as beautiful as Kremer playing the Brains violin concerto.
Peter Hoeg
#41. The eye's perception of texture is pale compared to the lips', and I didn't know what velvety was until I knew it with my lips. Oh, kissing. Oh, violin boy.
Laini Taylor
#42. Inside the house, violin music, richer than the darkest chocolate, started playing. It seeped outside and whispered to Scarlett as Julian's smile turned seductive, all shameless curves and immoral promises. An invitation to places that proper young ladies didn't think about, let alone visit.
Stephanie Garber
#43. Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a good harmony.
Lucy 'Aisy
#44. The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world's smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems; we all go through hardships and pain, and my pain is paradise compared to a lot of people's and I really have no right to whine at all.
J.A. Redmerski
#45. There are some days I take my violin out and it feels dreadful, like nothing is responding, and I want to sell it and get rid of it. And the next day suddenly the skies open up and the sound is glorious again. So it's like a relationship: There are good days and bad days.
Joshua Bell
#46. Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves. Not much good will come out of it. We must invent new ways!
Philippe Kahn
#47. It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye.
Kristin Cashore
#48. I made the valuable discovery that practicing wasn't a matter of time at all. It was a matter of intensity. Five minutes spent working consciously and hard at the elimination of an error, was worth five hours just playing away ignoring errors as if they hadn't happened.
Leonard Wibberley
#49. If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.
Jascha Heifetz
#50. If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.
Leo Tolstoy
#51. It seems like we ever met," said Oriash, and his words make the kids fell silent. "Ever ... and so far away from this time. I ever knew you!" he continued more seriously.
K.A.Z. Violin
#52. When God looks at sin, what he sees is what a violin maker would see if the player were to use his lovely creation as a tennis racquet.
Tom Wright
#53. I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.
Larry Wall
#54. The girl doesn't need a violin," he added. "She needs to have
her hands bound so she can never touch an instrument again.
Julia Quinn
#55. 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
#56. I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.
Louis Prima
#57. However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again ...
Arjuna Ardagh
#58. I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds - but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn't say, 'My God, that guy can play.' It'd probably sound more like Jack Benny.
Jon Tester
#59. Furthermore
though it was quite irrelevant now
he had no idea his killer, Kazuo Kiriyama, had, in his mansion that was much larger than Toshinori's home in Shiroiwa-cho, mastered the violin at a level far superior to Toshinori's a long time ago
and then tossed his violin into the trash.
Koushun Takami
#60. Gentle souls!
You play your love on the violin.
The crude ones play it on the drums violently.
But can you turn yourselves inside out, like me
And become just two lips entirely?
Vladimir Mayakovsky
#61. I grew up in a musical environment. My parents played music and had it playing on the radio. They brought me to a concert at the age of 5, the same age I started violin lessons.
Joshua Bell
#62. Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along
E. M. Forster
#63. The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.
Brett Weston
#64. I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
#65. Camille, a few feet away, looked like a gypsy who had mislaid his violin and had been searching for it in a hedgerow; he frustrated daily the best efforts of an expensive tailor, wearing his clothes as a subtle comment on the collapsing social order.
Hilary Mantel
#66. A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.
Stendhal
#67. I started playing the violin at age 3, and I was very fortunate because there were people who heard me who were influential in getting me auditions. By the time I was 7, I was playing concerts - it was just ridiculous.
Phil Ramone
#68. In contemporary music, the challenge for me is to make the recorder sound as naturally expressive as, for example, the violin - without doing it too much and forcing the instrument. It is very easy to be overly expressive on the recorder, and finding the balance is quite difficult.
Michala Petri
#69. If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.
Leila Josefowicz
#70. What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.
Joshua Bell
#71. 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
#72. One thing I have learned for sure. A woman is like a living Violin. She would only offer herself to this who can get the best tunes out of her.
Sameh Elsayed
#73. In this way he used her as the North Star on a journey where you always want to go south. It was helpful, aligning himself in this way. It gave him something to tune to, like a violin to a piano.
Noah Hawley
#74. Life, said Samuel Butler, is like giving a concert on the violin while learning to play the instrument - that, friends, is real wisdom.
Saul Bellow
#75. He'd walked as a ghost in the gloomy bowels of this opera house for so long, darkness had become his brother, which was fitting, since his father was the night, and sunlight their forgotten friend.
A.G. Howard
#76. I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.
Andrew Bird
#77. Well, since I'm six years old, I've been playing the violin, the piano, I've been singing. It's always been a dream of mine, but I really never had the courage to actually go and do it professionally.
Paris Hilton
#78. To take up the violin or any instrument was an act of hope, it implied a future.
Ian McEwan
#79. I know the lead singer of System of a Down, and I record violin tracks with him.
David Alpay
#80. There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#81. Every minute i spend talking to you is a mnute i could spend practicing the violin, and when you're a musical genius like me, every minute counts.
Lemony Snicket
#82. It is very unnatural to dance while playing the violin. I had to practice so hard to learn how to do it, but now it is part of my expression, and it comes naturally. I have to know a song perfectly before I can even begin to move.
Lindsey Stirling
#83. An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.
Daniel Barenboim
#84. Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin.
David Garrett
#85. 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
#86. I need to know why I'm supposed to go through the rest of my life without being able to talk to her. Hug her. Hear her laugh. Watch the sunset with her. Watch her play her violin. Kiss her forehead. Tell her I love her. Hear her say it back. Why? Why?!
Kim Holden
#87. Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
John Lubbock
#88. The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.
Elliott Carter
#89. He lights the violin and his mouth fills with fireflies.
Gwen Calvo
#90. I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.
Denise Van Outen
#91. There was something, both in fiction and in his life (Nabokov), that we instinctively related to and grasped, the possibility of a boundless freedom when all options are taken away.
I could invent violin or be devoured by the void.
Azar Nafisi
#92. I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
#93. There was one she kept reaching for, with a copper-red varnish, and a clarity like the point of a star, precise and loansome, reminding her, somehow, of home. This is the one, she thought to herself.
Kristin Cashore
#94. Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.
Paul Gibbons
#95. Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
George Eliot
#96. 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.
Katherine Moennig
#97. I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.
Madeleine L'Engle
#98. Very touching," said a voice from the stairway. "Do you want me to imitate a violin?" - Damon
L.J.Smith
#99. Dance me through th curtains that our kisses have out worm.
Raise a ent of shelter now, though every thread is torn.
Dance me to the end of love.
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin.
Antonia Michaelis
#100. The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.
Jose Mourinho
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