VIolin Quotes
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It was loud in spots and less loud in other spots, and it had that quality which I have noticed in all violin solos of seeming to last much longer than it actually did.
P. G. Wodehouse
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honore de Balzac
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I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
Paul Desmond
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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
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When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.
Joshua Bell
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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
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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
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I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case
Tomas Transtromer
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It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You.'
Eddie Dean
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
Noel Redding The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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To meet this expense, he sold his violin. Besides, Charlotte did not care for music.
Bel Kaufman
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I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.
Noel Redding The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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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
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Ivan said, If only we could eat violin music.
Catherynne M. Valente