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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 haveher 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 tried to learn the violin for a while.
— Peter Wright
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
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 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
I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.
— Joshua Bell
Sometimes the rainfalls
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
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
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
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
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
Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
— Andrew Bird
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 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
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
