VIolin Quotes

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

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Play
  • Remind
  • VIolin

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

  

  Paul Desmond
  • Age
  • Father
  • VIolin

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

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Actor
  • Supposed
  • Good Care

• Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Problem
  • Draw
  • VIolin

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

  

  Joshua Bell
  • Story
  • Piece
  • VIolin

• Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.

  

  Anton Webern
  • Mother
  • Pieces
  • Relate

• As far as I remember, there was no actual lyric written to that.At the very beginning of "Fiddler on the Roof," there's a violin solo, an unaccompanied violin solo.

  

  Sheldon Harnick
  • Remember
  • Written
  • Solo

• 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
  • Difference
  • Films
  • Piano

• All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon; All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd To the dancers dancing in tune; Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Night
  • Moon
  • Dancers

• Ted and I had history,” Jake said. “We were in love. This hurts all the time. I never stop thinking about how much this hurts.” Zoe stretched out her arms and pretended to play a goddamn violin.

  

  Carolyn Mackler
  • Time
  • Love
  • History

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

  

  Tomas Transtromer
  • Shadow
  • Case
  • VIolin

• It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You.'

  

  Eddie Dean
  • Playing
  • My Heart
  • VIolin

• I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.

  

  Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
  • Break
  • Point
  • Knee

• On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand piano to accompany a lady dressed in a cloud of tulle who played the violin and a cousin who performed on a cello. I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Parents
  • Party
  • Piano

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

  

  Noel Redding The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Taken
  • VIolin
  • Mates

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

  

  Noel Redding The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • School
  • Age
  • Nine

• Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble.

  

  Anne Akiko Meyers
  • Music
  • Language
  • Stage

• There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Music
  • Heaven
  • Harmonies

• To meet this expense, he sold his violin. Besides, Charlotte did not care for music.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Music
  • Meet
  • VIolin

• Ivan said, If only we could eat violin music.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Music
  • Eat
  • Ivan

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