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

Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time. — Lara St. John

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. — June Masters Bacher

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along. — E. M. Forster

The violin sings. — Joshua Bell

Let the violin become a fiddle, boy. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

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

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

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin ... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good. — Sara Zarr

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

I don't think there is any end to translucence. It's an endless journey, rather like playing the violin. — Arjuna Ardagh

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. — Neal A. Maxwell

Ah, two firm friends, reunited at last! There should be sweet violin music playing for us, but I'll settle for the screams of the dying. — Jonathan Stroud

It was as if the voice of the violin sparked the wicks of each individual soul, jolting them from sleep. — Sophia Elaine Hanson

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin. — Noel Redding

I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade. — Adam Jones

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

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

When God looks at sin, what he sees is what a violin maker would see if the player were to use his lovely creation as a tennis racquet. — Tom Wright

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice. — Alain De Botton

There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm ... — James O'Barr

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

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring — S.J Perelman

I have been known to say that the devil gave me my first violin. — Laini Taylor

But it's the eyes that hold me captive, empty of concentric creek ripples and breezy tree branches playing the sky like my bow plays my violin. — Emily Murdoch

One thing I have learned for sure. A woman is like a living Violin. She would only offer herself to this who can get the best tunes out of her. — Sameh Elsayed

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice. — Alain De Botton

Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. — Samuel Butler

If I like dubstep and electronic, why don't I make the violin fit me rather than making myself fit the violin? — Lindsey Stirling

He poured all his pain into the void of the violin and gently worked it out, turned it to beauty. — A.S. Peterson

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway. — Lemony Snicket

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do. — Joshua Bell

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

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

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

To take up the violin or any instrument was an act of hope, it implied a future. — Ian McEwan

I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen. — Sue Townsend

Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a good harmony. — Lucy 'Aisy

The girl doesn't need a violin," he added. "She needs to have
her hands bound so she can never touch an instrument again. — Julia Quinn

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. — Wynton Marsalis

Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached. — Jacob Braude

A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat. — Ambrose Bierce

... the violin - that most human of all instruments ... — Louisa May Alcott

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff. — Louis Prima

I know the lead singer of System of a Down, and I record violin tracks with him. — David Alpay

I tried to learn the violin for a while. — Peter Wright

The violin is basically made of a wood box and four main strings. — Sirena Huang

Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor. — Jason Bateman

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place. — Robert Schumann

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

Very touching," said a voice from the stairway. "Do you want me to imitate a violin?" - Damon — L.J.Smith

Life, said Samuel Butler, is like giving a concert on the violin while learning to play the instrument - that, friends, is real wisdom. — Saul Bellow

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin. — Michala Petri

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it. — Randy Bachman

Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists — Mikhail Botvinnik

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well. — Alison Krauss

I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy. — Madeleine L'Engle

Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along — E. M. Forster

By the age of eleven it was . . . too late for the piano and the violin. — Jasper Rees

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin. — Joshua Bell

He lights the violin and his mouth fills with fireflies. — Gwen Calvo

Sometimes the rain
falls
just for you and me

to be the violin
playing
in the background
of our loneliness's song. — Sanober Khan

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. — Patrick Swayze

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

He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played. — Cassandra Clare

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

I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin. — Itzhak Perlman

I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. — Vanessa Mae

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting. — Leila Josefowicz

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

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement. — Winston Churchill

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark. — Peggy Fleming

Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear. — Eduard Hanslick

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge. — Mark Twain

I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated. — Gretchen Carlson

- the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again. — Alexandra Bracken

It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity. — Caroline Shaw

He studied Latin like the violin, because he liked it. — Robert Frost

Then she took up the bow and began to play. The tone was warm and deep, storied with layers of age. — A.S. Peterson

The older the violin, the sweeter the music. — Larry McMurtry

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. — Hal Linden

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound. — Andrew Bird

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. — Honore De Balzac

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

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

The violin wasn't alive. It wasn't a baby or an animal, not living.
But that would be easier to believe if I hadn't felt it breathe and sing. — Jessica Martinez

I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin. — Edwin Land

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. — Katherine Moennig

Every minute i spend talking to you is a mnute i could spend practicing the violin, and when you're a musical genius like me, every minute counts. — Lemony Snicket

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire. — Leila Josefowicz

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess. — Denise Van Outen

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

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all. — Luka Sulic

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

When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat. — Fred Allen

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin. — Richard Steele

Dave Matthews is mixing violin solos with saxophone solos and it's bad for the baby — Rob Sheffield

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

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