Quotes About Violin And Piano

#1. It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

Mstislav Rostropovich

#2. My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

Pete Seeger

#3. Do you know what the essential problem of the piano is?" he asked. He held me so his head was a few inches from my own. His eyes darted back and forth. "It is impossible to play continuously on a piano string like a violin. The problem is to sustain a note.

Frederick Weisel

#4. Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

Michala Petri

#5. By the age of eleven it was . . . too late for the piano and the violin.

Jasper Rees

#6. 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

#7. By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words.

Myself

#8. We developed our own type of Igudesman and Joo electric violin, let's say, and funny enough, the shape of it was developed by the head technician of Steinway. It's actually an electric violin, which is made from the stick that holds up the piano lid.

Aleksey Igudesman

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

Luka Sulic

#10. I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.

Ronnie Milsap

#11. I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so I always knew - I always knew that I wanted to do something that would allow me to be who I am. Generally, that was creatively, imaginatively.

Reggie Watts

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

Dev Hynes

#13. Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

Charlie Chaplin

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

Neville Marriner

#15. Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

Mark Twain

#16. My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.

Quentin Bryce

#17. 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

#18. My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.

James Blunt

#19. I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing.

Brendon Urie

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really enjoyed music.

Jesse Spencer

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute ... Just not well.

Kat Dennings

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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