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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, Happy, Be Happy, Fruit

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

Story, Play, You, Telling, Piece

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

Life, Learning, Experience, Solo, Like

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, Like, Instrument

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

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, Generosity, World, You, Others

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

Singing, Think, Me, Perfect, Paint, Sing

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

Guitar, Master, Mistress

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

Think, Guitar, Play, You, I Can, Piano

I have a very simple philosophy. One has to separate the abilities from the disabilities. The fact I cannot walk, that I need crutches or a scooter or whatever it is, has nothing to do with my playing the violin. Itzhak Perlman

Walk, Simple, Philosophy, Need, Nothing

The violin sings. Joshua Bell

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

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

Communication, Voice, Find, Real, Always

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, Think, Unique, You

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

Happiness, Like, Thing, Practiced

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

Art, Great, Traditions, Behind, Playing

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, Playing, Poet, Up

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

Hair, Long, Long Hair, Playing, Because

I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so I always knew - I always knew that I wanted to do something that would allow me to be who I am. Generally, that was creatively, imaginatively. Reggie Watts

Music, I Am, Creative, Me, Kid, Always

I was classically trained. But more than just the fact that I play violin, there's a lot of classical elements in the way I write, in the way I hear chords. A lot of times, I think of my songs as a symphony made out of electronics rather than instruments. And I love to do orchestral arrangements of my songs after they're done. Lindsey Stirling

Love, Think, Play, Done, Way, More

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

Age, School, Playing, Nine, Then, Onto

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

Play, You, Piano, Hand, Out, Your

I played the violin my whole life. I wanted to play from the time I was just a little kid, and I've always loved dance as well. I wanted to make people smile. I wanted to add an extra energy to my playing and make it visual and make it unique and fun. Lindsey Stirling

Life, Smile, Time, Dance, People, Fun

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

Story, Play, Moral, You, Listen, Tell

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, Play, You

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing. Brendon Urie

Best, Good, Sister, Guitar, Play, Know

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