Violin Quotes

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

Happy, Else, Fruit

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

Good, Care, Everybody

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

Love, Power, Artist

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler

Life, Learning, Playing

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

Trying, Play, Majority

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Yourself, Through, Others

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

Love, Playing, Goat

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

Happiness, Practiced

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Perfect, After, Cannot

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

Between, Difference, Longer

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

Fight, Shoes, Growing

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

Girl, Lie, Everything

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

Respect, Play, Place

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

Peace, Door, Next

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

Play, Tell, Moral

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

Education, Nothing, Else

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

Age, Teacher, Playing

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.
Josh Radnor

Used, Less, Playing

You see, the one place I know where it seems totally acceptable to lie is on an actor's CV. The job of 'pretending' just seems to leak on to the page. I know an actor with 'badger taming' on his resume. Yes, I can ride a horse, play the violin and speak German. More or less. Looks good and probably won't ever be called upon. Probably. Until it is.
Dan Stevens

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

Second, Played, Beethoven

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.
Steve Lacy

Song, Voice, Approach

Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own.
Ellen Barkin

Put, Acting, Dance

I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
Kat Dennings

Everything, Play, Guitar

My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.
Fiona Shaw

Mother, Play, Used

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

Matter, Singer, Heard

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

Love, Dying, Triumphant

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.
Andrew Bird

Guitar, Since, Interested

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.
Andrew Bird

Play, Happens, Instrument

I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.
Andrew Bird

Remember, Pretty, Young

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

Different, Making, Playing

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