Violin Quotes

Some songs are just going to be acoustic with just maybe some light background stuff going on and maybe violin or something like that. Or sax - I mean, I'm definitely having some sax. That's just what I love. It's going to be jazz-rock stuff. That's what I'm aiming for.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

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

The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.

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

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark.

The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.

When I was five I had violin lessons.

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all.

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.

I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.

Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of the foremost interpreters of Bach for the violin.

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.

I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.

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

I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

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

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

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

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.

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.