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

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein

Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all.
Itzhak Perlman

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

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

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.
Ethel Barrymore

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
John Lubbock

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
Itzhak Perlman

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.
Lara St. John

I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.
Miroslav Vitous

I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing.
Dan Hicks

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

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
Conor Oberst

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.
Anton Seidl

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

I tried to learn the violin for a while.
Peter Wright

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.
Edward Lear

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