17 Violinist Quotes for You to Enjoy

If your mom asks you to do the dishes, do not pull out your pirate attitude. But if someone tells you you're not good enough, says your dreams are too lofty, or claims there is no room in showbiz for a dancing violinist - well then, by all means, pull out your eye patch, my friend, and take to the high seas. Lindsey Stirling

Attitude Dreams Good Mom You Not Good Enough Too Enough Dancing Says Claims Eye Out High Tells Lofty My Friend Someone High Seas Take Well Friend Patch Pirate Dishes Room Ask Then Means Your Your Dreams Showbiz Seas Pull Violinist

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Music Dinner Both Insult Cook Violinist

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet. Yehudi Menuhin

Rare Poet Half Distilled Potency Tiger Human Phenomenon Violinist

I'll never forget the first time I heard Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Partita in E Major' for violin. It was in a late-1980s television commercial, of all things. As a young violinist at the time, it enchanted me - it was so pure, precise, and unadorned. Ajit Pai

I actually played violin on 'E.T.' I used to be a violinist. David Newman

Used Actually Played Violin Violinist

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist. George Duke

Gig He End Did Electric Jean Here Violinist

I've reinvented myself many times in my life. I thought I'd become a concert violinist but burned out at 17. I thought I'd go to law school but became Miss America. Gretchen Carlson

Life Myself Law School Thought My Life Become Out Law School Miss Concert Became Go Times America Burned Many Reinvented Violinist

I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and we travelled down from the Midlands for the last night of the School Proms. We played some pieces from the Harry Potter films, and the violin parts were really hard. Laura Mvula

School First Down Films Birmingham Harry Harry Potter Some Potter Pieces Schools Concert Hall Parts Were Orchestra Really Hard Travelled Played Albert Royal Last Night Last Night Violin Violinist

As a dancing violinist, there have been a couple of moments where I'm like, 'Oops! This is an expensive mistake!' Lindsey Stirling

Mistake Dancing Like Couple Been Expensive Where Moments Violinist

My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor. Peter Dinklage

Family Passion Brother Only Performer Him Real Ham His Being The Only Thing Now Actor Thing Kept Violin Violinist

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it. Zubin Mehta

Teacher Great Listening Father College Teens Inspired He Bought Him Himself Learned His Italian Heard Self-Taught Accountant Trained Little Little Help Help Play Violin Violinist

If my career doesn't work out as a violinist, I want to become an archaeologist. I've read about paleontology, too - that's dinosaur bones - but I thought it would be more interesting to do archaeology. Hilary Hahn

Work Thought Become Too Out Would Would-Be Dinosaur Archaeology About More Read Want Interesting Work Out Career Bones Violinist

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