Violin Quotes
On discipline, humor, and memory tied to the violin.
This page brings together thoughts on the violin, from a light joke comparing it to the viola to memories of childhood lessons and later choosing a different path entirely. For more on artistic craft, see the Art quotes page.
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.
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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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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.
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Some lines celebrate discipline within an orchestra, while others reflect on stepping away from the instrument for a new pursuit. Browse Emotion and Expression for more on music's deeper pull.
