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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.

Quotes by Wynton Marsalis

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

Quotes by Victor Borge

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

Quotes by Vanessa Mae

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.

Quotes by Vanessa Mae

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

Quotes by Vanessa Mae

I started playing violin when I was six, so I thought I could be a professional. It wasn't until I was 15 when I got into acting classes and realized this was what I wanted to do.

Quotes by Torrey DeVitto

I studied classical violin and voice until I was 18 and by then I had had my fill.

Quotes by Sunny Ozell

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

Quotes by Sue Townsend

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

Quotes by Steve Lacy

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

Quotes by Sirena Huang

My grandma has a picture of Louis Farrakhan playing violin in her house.

Quotes by Shamir

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.

Quotes by Sara Zarr

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Quotes by S. J. Perelman

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

Quotes by Ronnie Milsap

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

Quotes by Robert Schumann

I tried to learn the violin for a while.

Quotes by Peter Wright

I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant.

Quotes by Peter Dinklage

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

Quotes by Peggy Fleming

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

Quotes by Patrice Leconte

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

Quotes by Noel Redding

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

Quotes by Noel Redding

The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.

Quotes by Niccolo Paganini

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

Quotes by Neville Marriner

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

Quotes by Mstislav Rostropovich

I've always wanted to play violin.

Quotes by Maggie Rogers

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

Quotes by Luka Sulic

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

Quotes by Louis Prima

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

Quotes by Leila Josefowicz

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

Quotes by Leila Josefowicz

I studied violin when I was very young.

Quotes by Lee Marvin

I don't know exactly when I started watching television, but I know that Muppets and Smurfs hold privileged places in my memory. Without television, I surely could have mastered several classical languages or learned to play the violin, right?

Quotes by Kim Brooks

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.

Quotes by Katherine Moennig

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.

Quotes by Julia Roberts

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

Quotes by Joshua Bell

I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the orchestra, and when you're an actor, you're playing the violin. There's a thrill to each of them, but as the conductor, you get the fuller sound.

Quotes by Josh Radnor

I have a classical music background. I studied violin and trumpet.

Quotes by Johnny Flynn

I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.

Quotes by Johnny Flynn

As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.

Quotes by J. Smith-Cameron

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Quotes by Honore de Balzac

I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.

Quotes by Gustavo Dudamel

We get so many kids telling us that they've taken up the violin or cello. It's really special, and it wasn't really our intention in the beginning.

Quotes by Grace Chatto

We have a lot of people onstage. We have a live violin, live cello, live drums played on this kind of massive electronic kit with some acoustic elements built in.

Quotes by Grace Chatto

We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.

Quotes by Gary Frank

My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.

Quotes by Felicia Day

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

Quotes by Ethel Barrymore

I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.

Quotes by Emun Elliott

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.

Quotes by Elliott Carter

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

Quotes by Edmond de Goncourt

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

Quotes by Dev Hynes

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.

Quotes by Denise Van Outen

I actually played violin on 'E.T.' I used to be a violinist.

Quotes by David Newman

I had no interest or intention of ever writing music. I was a professional violinist in my 20s. I was obsessed with conducting, and I was conducting as much as I could, and I was studying as much as I could. I went to USC; I got an undergrad degree in violin and a master's degree in conducting.

Quotes by David Newman

I have this weird musical thing I do: I play violin, and I even went on tour with Tim Robbins. We did a bunch of Canadian cities, and then went down to the States, and then we ended up in Japan.

Quotes by David Alpay

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

Quotes by David Alpay

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!

Quotes by Birdy

I've been playing the viola since I was 6 years old, and then I decided to switch it up a bit, so I've been playing the violin since I was 11. I started playing the piano when I was 11, and I started playing the guitar when I was 10.

Quotes by Anthony Gonzalez

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

Quotes by Andy Summers

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

Quotes by Andres Segovia

Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.

Quotes by Andrew Bird

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

Quotes by Andrew Bird

I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.

Quotes by Andre Rieu

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

Quotes by Amar Bose

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

Quotes by Alison Krauss

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

Quotes by Aleksey Igudesman

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

Quotes by Adam Jones

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