Stradivarius's Quotes

#1. 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

George Eliot

#2. Ah, man, when Wolverine grows his face back, he's really gonna be pretty upset.

Brian Michael Bendis

#3. Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

Jim Bishop

#4. The America to which these Swedish settlers came was a land that needed the hardy qualities they brought. It was not a land that was particularly softhearted towards newcomers, but everyone believed that each should have a fair chance regardless of his origin.

Harry S. Truman

#5. I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.

Tommy Cooper

#6. It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

James H. Boren

#7. The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.

Robert Breault

#8. My goal on every job is to learn something new, because I get bored so easily,

Nina Kostroff Noble

#9. I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.

Lisa Ling

#10. I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

Irving Penn

#11. Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence. Whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years.

Thomas Bangalter

#12. The beauty of a Stradivarius is that you can play in Carnegie Hall without any amplification, and it has this - the sound has, inside it, has something that projects, and it has multifaceted sound, something that kind of gets lost when you use amplification anyway.

Joshua Bell

#13. If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.

Peabo Bryson

#14. Stradivarius, in particular, was the most amazing craftsman and one of the great artists and scientists that ever lived because he figured out something with the sound and the science of acoustics that we still don't understand it completely.

Joshua Bell

#15. I always have loved the Stradivarius. My teacher, Josef Gingold, he had a Stradivarius. As a treat, he would put it under my chin and let me play a few notes, and I remember that feeling of the overtones, the complexity of the sound. It's like a great wine.

Joshua Bell