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Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

Victor Borge

People will pay a lot for violin lessons, but a small investment with Epicenter can make kids faster and stronger, ... Stronger and faster might mean a college scholarship.

Chip Sigmon

I recently matched up two flute players here in Hudson County. I like bringing together some lonely violin players. I feel like a musical 'yenta' or matchmaker.

Beth Cohen

You want to hear the violin burp. The violin can even sound like a monster. Isn't that cool?

Mark Wood

It's a Mozart piece for violin that I've never played before so that's always fun challenge. His music has a lot of energy to it that never goes away so I'm always excited to be playing any of his pieces.

Sarah Gentry

I had to put down the violin. It was devastating. . . . But if it hadn't happened I never would have considered conducting. I went through a total career turnaround.

Miriam Burns

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

S. J. Perelman

[Ellis, who lives in France, recorded some of the violin loops at his house.] It was very different to making a normal record, ... There were no boundaries in that respect, and I enjoyed much more than I thought I would. The music had to be very flexible, and as a result it has a very improvised, loose feel. But that's fine. Beethoven and Mozart did not write with films in mind either.

Warren Ellis

He said, 'I've started making violas, and I'm having very good luck with this,' ... I told him, 'When you make your first violin, I will want it.' .

Paul Rosenthal

We cannot see that enormous apparatus of force that the modern orchestra represents without feeling the most profound and total disillusion at the paltry acoustic results. Do you know of any sight more ridiculous than that of twenty men furiously bent on redoubling the mewing of a violin?

Luigi Russolo

'Sweet Georgia Brown' was the first tune that I heard. Venuti came in playing and his attack on the violin was such a powerful sound. ... It was the first jazz on the violin that I heard and it was like, oh my God, what have I been missing.

Aaron Weinstein

My violin is called Kylie as she sounds great and is perfectly formed.

Nigel Kennedy

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Robert A. Schumann

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

Josephine Baker

I started the Fiddler's Hall of Fame in 1985 and I am running out of room. The fiddle is the most difficult instrument in country music because it's akin to the sweet sound of the violin.

Bob Everhart

No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it.

Jim Fiebig

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

Julia Roberts

It's a different kind of child that cradles a violin than one who blows air through a horn.

Jean Perry

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

Conor Oberst

The violin came naturally, and it really fit me. When I picked it up (and placed it under the chin), it looked like it had grown there. It just fit.

Miriam Burns

Well, we hope to talk about children and what he and his wife have done to help children learn violin.

John Noel

During the event we're going to have somebody up there playing the violin.

Carolyn Jennings

The raw wood of a sawed off tree was turned, stripped, and varnished into a traveling violin that could only squeal in carnival colors.

Grace Slick

If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.

Jascha Heifetz

The first year, we asked artists who had participated in a poster contest to decorate a donated violin. Now we're getting calls from artists who want to be a part of it. It's amazing that they all start with the same thing and come up with totally different concepts.

Mary Nelson

They gave you a string instrument - I got a violin. Gave it to me. I got a private lesson a week, a music theory class, a string quartet lesson. Then we all got together for the orchestra. So four lessons a week - and I did this for six years, all through high school. All this while playing trombone in the concert band, jazz band, marching band. And singing in the a cappella chorus and drama club.

John Carlin

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

I crossed the Pyrenees in December, nearly got frozen to death in a blizzard and arrived carrying a violin, a camera and books.

Laurie Lee

Cynthia's violin is beautiful. Her father is a trustee on the Cape Symphony Orchestra board, so we know her work very well and it's beautiful.

Cindy Russell

Michelle is like a violin, a finely turned instrument. Fencing is a combat sport and she is so powerful.

Michael Morgan

If it hadn't been for her I wouldn't have been able to do it. She took apart the violin, piece by piece.

Cynthia Davis

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is broken, sad as a woman who is growing old.

Jean Rhys

CREMONA, n. A high-priced violin made in Connecticut.

Ambrose Bierce

She is one of the most sublime, profound artists in India as she brings years of playing on the violin with her expressive style. It's almost like she's singing on the violin.

Kanniks Kannikeswaran

When The Red Violin came along, it seemed like a film that would eliminate a lot of those things, because it's about the music.

Matthias Gohl

I think that also is a draw. He has to live with that every day and yet he makes such beautiful music. Thankfully, the disease didn't stop his ability to play (the violin).

Daniel Larson

Other students studied piano or violin, but I switched from flutes to drums. Music is a bridge between cultures.

Theo Staub

I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

Paul Desmond

The Guarneri is a fantastic instrument, both for playing classical music and for what I'm doing now. It's great for playing improvised music on, cause you get such great response. And for the same reason it's great for classical music too. It's a good violin.

Nigel Kennedy

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

I started in elementary school. I tried clarinet first since my mom had played it but I didn't like it. When I tried the violin it was like, 'Wow, this is fun.' It's like my passion. I love playing the violin.

Eric Vargas

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.

Edward Lear

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Edmond de Goncourt

The self-refinery of Buddhism does not lie in the form of exercise. Not all people sitting in a lotus position can reach real Zen - if they are obsessed by desires. Instead, a pure heart, even during subconscious action, can get sudden enlightenment and the real Zen. It's like Einstein suddenly finds a solution to Relativity when playing violin.

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