95 Violin Quotes for You to Enjoy

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 Politics Power Harmonies Draw Musician Out Sounds His Artist Loves Chords Violin

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

Life Learning Experience Solo Like Instrument Goes Public Playing Violin

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 I Think Seemed Perfect Since Spontaneous Most Sing Always After Cannot Means Paint Expression Violin

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

You Telling Piece Story Storyteller Play Violin

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

Simple Walk Whatever Nothing Philosophy Ability Fact Disabilities Crutches Scooter Very Cannot Separate Playing Need Violin

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

Between Longer Difference Burns Viola Violin

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

Matter Singer Heard Cello Electric Whoever Violin

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

Me Eyes Lie Pure Girl Cries Else Everything Everything Else Melody Out Pouring Like Know She Because Practices Sounds Just Note Cuts Then Who Each Now Her Violin

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

Happiness Like Practiced Thing Violin

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano. Mstislav Rostropovich

Life Destination Aim Piano Instrument Make Cello Beloved Violin

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

Often the 'lead' of a classical song will have something really cool to its melody that - even though it might be a violin or something doing it in the song - I end up wanting to try something like that with my voice. Alissa White-Gluz

I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played. Andre Rieu

First Assumed Everyone Picked Up Five Just Aged Played Violin

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

Myself Think Main Songwriter Instrument Well Happens Who Play Violin

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

Way Respond Finger Tend Instance Sound Thing Playing Violin

I've been playing the viola since I was 6 years old, and then I decided to switch it up a bit, so I've been playing the violin since I was 11. I started playing the piano when I was 11, and I started playing the guitar when I was 10. Anthony Gonzalez

Guitar Old Bit Piano Since Been Years Up Decided Then Switch Viola Started Playing Violin

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis. Anton Seidl

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! Birdy

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The only downside to playing the violin is that you never know when you're going to be asked to play. I could be out to dinner or having a drink at a bar, and someone could just give me a violin, and I've got to be ready to play. Charlie Siem

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