Violin Quotes

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. (Samuel Butler (novelist))

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

Helen Keller

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

Albert Einstein

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

Itzhak Perlman

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

Andy Summers

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.

Fiona Shaw

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

Lara St. John

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.

Miroslav Vitous

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

I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus."

John Lennon

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

Edmond de Goncourt

Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves. Not much good will come out of it. We must invent new ways!

Philippe Kahn

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

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

Victor Borge

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.

Elliott Carter

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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.

Anton Chekhov

I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care about money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin, and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.

Albert Einstein

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are. (Mark Nepo)

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

Mstislav Rostropovich

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...

Jean Rhys

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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what else. But if you say you have to get all A's and practice the violin for two hours, then they consider that abusive. That upsets me.

Amy Chua

Previous
1 (Current)
2
3
4
5
6
7
Next