Violin Quotes - page 3

First and foremost, yoga made its contribution to my quest to understand consciously the mechanics of violin playing, a quest which by 1951 had long been one of the themes of my life. All influences pointed to less tension, more effective application of energy, the breaking down of resistance in every joint, the coordination of all motions into one motion; and illustrated the profound truth that strength comes not from strength but from the subtle comprehension of process, proportion and balance. (Yehudi Menuhin)
Throughout Jack's violin solo at the Hollywood Bowl, the audience was glued to their seats. That was the only way he could get them to sit down. View quote
Zubin Mehta
The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing his life...He played that which he would never play again. View quote
Elie Wiesel
...the violin - that most human of all instruments... View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along. View quote
E. M. Forster
Studies of violin players by Thomas Elbert have shown that the region of the brain responsible for moving the left hand... increases in size as a result of practice. View quote
Daniel Levitin
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. View quote
S. J. Perelman
Balzac says that many young husbands are so ignorant of women that they make him think of orang-outangs trying to play the violin. View quote
André Maurois
I try not to take my life for granted. I have friends who have tendinitis. That would kill me. A short break from the violin is fine, but if I don't touch it for three or four days, my fingers start to feel funny. View quote
Sarah Chang
He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he'd set the violin back in its box, Will's eyes were closed, but Tessa's were full of tears. View quote
Cassandra Clare
He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played. (Cassandra Clare)
He was gazing at her, the way one did when one felt one was unobserved. He had that look on his face, the look he usually got only when he was playing the violin, as if he were completely caught up and entranced. View quote
Cassandra Clare
He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless. View quote
Cassandra Clare
"It was an old passion,” he said. "I haven't touched a violin for months. I didn't know what that would be like.” "What is it like?” she asked. He began to walk so that she almost missed his answer. "An amputation,” he whispered. View quote
Octavia Butler
If I had to vote for what is the greatest piece of music ever conceived by the human mind, I'd have a hard time choosing between the Chaconne that ends Bach's second partita for unaccompanied violin or the his Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue for the piano. View quote
Harry Markowitz
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. View quote
Wynton Marsalis
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies & played the violin: but one of the twins died, & the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace. View quote
Edward Lear
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. View quote
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
The house was filled with the piano and violin. I turned towards the art of painting. View quote
Jean Metzinger
He boxed as though he were playing the violin. View quote
Sugar Ray Robinson
Tonight there was music in the saloon, a piano and a violin; two fat women with hard masculine faces and short haircuts. Their song was Over the Waves. Ta de da da, and I watched Camilla dancing with her beer tray. Her hair was so black, so deep and clustered, like grapes hiding her neck. This was a sacred place, this saloon. Everything here was holy, the chairs, the tables, that rag in her hand, that sawdust under her feet. She was a Mayan princess and this was her castle. I watched the tattered huaraches glide across the floor, and I wanted those huaraches. I would like them to hold in my hands against my chest when I fell asleep. I would like to hold them and breathe the odor of them. (John Fante)
I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age. View quote
Paul Desmond
I wanted to invent some kind of an instrument that would not operate mechanically, as does the piano, or the cello and the violin, whose bow movements can be compared to those of a saw. I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. View quote
Léon Theremin
There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
if a violin string could ache, i would be that string. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov