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If a violin string could ache, i would be that string. — Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

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

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

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

t was amazing how easy it was to think in straight lines when he was in motion, even without his violin. — Victoria Schwab

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14. — Amar Bose

If you play something well, I don't care what it is. I mean, I don't play an electric [violin] - I tried. It's actually interesting. — Itzhak Perlman

I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but I just feel like I can. — Alexa Chung

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight. — Ronnie Milsap

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

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat. — Julia Roberts

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

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

A violin should be played with love, or not at all. — Joseph Wechsberg

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

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat. — Julia Roberts

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse. — Elie Wiesel

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

He touched her as he would touch his violin: it was how he knew to touch something that was precious and loved. — Cassandra Clare

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

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

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

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

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story. — Joshua Bell

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

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

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

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

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

To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink printed on paper. — Bruce Crown

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

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

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

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

When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire, 'Hey lovely, what you got there?' she said, 'Musicians who ask questions,' and kept on dragging. — Laini Taylor

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

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

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

Lili manages to mix Kate Bush with modern influences to make a beautifully unique sound based around her amazing violin skills and soulful voice. — Steve Lillywhite

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer? — Andres Segovia

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

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin? — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

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

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

I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin. — Kevin Eubanks

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin. — Patrice Leconte

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

Three eggs two slices of toast a cup of coffee an episode of Mr. Ed. A Violin and a bowl of fruit what else does a man need? — Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case — Tomas Transtromer

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

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony. — Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

Fun was fun and Sam was strung like a violin. I could play sweet music when I plucked at some of her strings. — Tijan

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

Happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat. — Richard Curtis

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

A woman's body is like a violin and all, and that it takes a terrific musician to play it right — J.D. Salinger

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

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

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

Sometimes the rain
falls
just for you and me

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

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live! — Dev Hynes

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

I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger. — Aleksey Igudesman

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