Quotes About Violinists

#1. You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

David Ogden Stiers

#2. Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists

Mikhail Botvinnik

#3. It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had a good technique, they were not tonally as good.

Ruggiero Ricci

#4. Looking for inspiration in expression, I have actually always looked to singers and violinists. I have never really looked only at the recorder as a remedy for my expressions.

Michala Petri

#5. You are the hip-hop violinist, the creator, the visionaire, ... and therefore you should do whatever the hell you wanna do because whatever you do is right. They're not gonna have like 20 hip-hop violinists in the company. I know what to do.

Miri Ben-Ari

#6. I started taking piano lessons when I was about 5, and there was always a lot of music in my family: my parents both play instruments, my grandparents were classical violinists, and my grandfather was actually a music professor and a conductor.

Adam Schlesinger

#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. So what are violinists?
Well, I think they're really sensitive, and kind of deep.

John Marsden

#9. We often suffer from akrasia, weakness of will. So we become good people the way we become good tennis players or violinists, through practice until the behaviour we aspire to becomes natural and instinctive. Being moral means acquiring the habits of the heart we call virtue.

Jonathan Sacks

#10. Violists hate it when we violinists crack viola jokes.

Paula Yoo

#11. Violinists' hands aren't the prettiest because of our nails and what our hands have to go through.

Lindsey Stirling

#12. The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

Leonard Bernstein

#13. I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.

Nigel Kennedy

#14. I've just confirmed every bad joke ever told about second violin players. Question: How many second violinists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Answer: They can't go that high. Gerda

Tess Gerritsen

#15. The attention has to be on the Spirit. And that cannot be there unless and until something happens within.

Nirmala Srivastava

#16. While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens all of our comfort zones. Faith offends the stationary.

Leonard Ravenhill

#17. I wanted to like booze more than I actually did (which is more or less the precise opposite of how I felt about Alaska)

John Green

#18. Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.

Daniel Baldwin

#19. Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.

Mark McCormack

#20. Your scent is like a drug to me like my own personal brand of heroin.

Stephenie Meyer