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

I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
Paul Desmond

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

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

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

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.
Guy Clark

Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
Lara St. John

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

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

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

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

My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.
Louis Prima

No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it.
Jim Fiebig

Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.
Ruggiero Ricci

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

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.
Pierre Schaeffer

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

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

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

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.
Elliott Carter