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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.
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.
I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
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.
I studied classical violin and voice until I was 18 and by then I had had my fill.
I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.
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.
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.
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant.
At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.
Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.
I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.
If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.
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?
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.
When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.
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.
I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.
As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!
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.
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.
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.
I know the lead singer of System of a Down, and I record violin tracks with him.
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.
If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?
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.
Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.
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