Violin Quotes

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.

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?

I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

I tried to learn the violin for a while.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.'

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.

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

Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

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.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

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.

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.

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.

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

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.

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing.

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.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

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

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