Violin Quotes

Violin Quote of the day

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

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

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

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

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

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.

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

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.

The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.

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

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

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

The violin - that most human of all instruments.

The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.

Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.

A violin should be played with love, or not at all.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn yourselves inside out, like me And become just two lips entirely?

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

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

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

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.

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.

I practice three hours daily on my violin so I won't get worse.

if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.

I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull refrain.

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.

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

To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

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

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless.

An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

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

However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again.

There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.

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.

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.

I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case

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

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.