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

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

Happiness, Man, Be Happy, Happy, Fruit

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story. Joshua Bell

Story, You, Play, Telling, Piece

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

Happiness, Like, Thing, Practiced

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, Politics, Artist, Out, His

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

Life, Learning, Experience, Solo, Like

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

Me, Singing, Think, Perfect, Spontaneous

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. Vanessa Mae

Great, Art, Traditions, Behind, Playing

The violin is very beautiful. Some people relate it as the shape of a lady, but, whether you like it or not, it's been so for more than 400 years, unlike modern stuff that easily looks dated. But I think it's very personal and unique that, although each violin looks pretty similar, that no two violins sound the same. Sirena Huang

Beautiful, People, Unique, Think, You

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

Hair, Long, Long Hair, Because, Playing

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

Generosity, Yourself, World, You, Others

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

Love, Love Is, Goat, Without, Playing

I always find that there is a real communication between voice and violin. Itzhak Perlman

Communication, Voice, Find, Real, Always

If you put your hand on the piano, you play a note. It's in tune. But if you put it on the violin, maybe it is, maybe it isn't. You have to figure it out. Itzhak Perlman

You, Play, Piano, Hand, Out, Maybe

The violin sings. Joshua Bell

When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you can tackle the problem with a fresh new insight. Einstein liked to play the violin to relax. Every physicist likes to have a past time. Mine is ice skating. Michio Kaku

Time, Past, Relax, Problem, You, Forget

I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin. J. Cole

Day, School, Me, You, Play, Class

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, What If, Sensitive, Actor

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin. Joshua Bell

Hope, Chance, Play, Will, Always

Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor. Jason Bateman

Acting, Orchestra, Playing, Being, Just

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

Difference, Between, Longer, Viola

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

Blue, Moon, Too Much, Sometimes, Show

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

Man, Ladder, Star, Poet, Playing, Up

The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master. Niccolo Paganini

Guitar, Master, Mistress

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

Shoes, Fight, Growing Up, Me, Texas, You

The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator. Mstislav Rostropovich

Hero, Great, Voice, Because, Instrument

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

Marriage, Me, Trying, Play, Majority

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