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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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
Edmond de Goncourt
Man
Poet
Ladder
Puts
Climbs
Up
While
Who
Star
Playing
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
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
Out
Piano
Put
Hand
Maybe
Tune
Note
Your
Figure
Play
Violin
I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason not to.
Itzhak Perlman
Before
No Reason
Had
Polio
Wanted
Afterwards
Then
Reason
Play
Actually
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
Time
Me
Pure
First
Young
Bach
Television
All Things
Never
Never Forget
Major
First Time
Enchanted
Heard
Commercial
Forget
Precise
Things
Violin
Violinist
There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'
Aleksey Igudesman
Music
People
Out
Only
Concerto
Go
Little
Who
Play
Million
Brilliantly
Million People
Violin
Nightmare
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
Song
Try
Will
Melody
Though
Classical
Something
Voice
Lead
Like
Doing
End
Up
Often
Wanting
Might
Really
Cool
Even
Violin
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
Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
Andrew Bird
Three
Singing
Ways
Making
Sound
Just
Different
Whistling
Different Ways
Playing
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
Simple
Picture
Action
Too
Possible
Significance
Horn
Insignificant
Scenic
Lift
Emphasis
Call
Learned
Passage
How
Transform
Means
Help
Apparently
Incident
Thing
Violin
I sometimes use a girl singer the way Henny Youngman uses his violin - as a bridge between one laugh and the next.
Benny Hill
Sometimes
Girl
Way
Laugh
Between
Singer
His
Next
Use
Uses
Bridge
Violin
I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!
Birdy
Good
Very
Used
Play
Violin
It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.
Caroline Shaw
Try
Big
Experiment
Part
Identity
Sort
Without
Real
Leave
Person
Real Person
Big Part
Thing
Violin
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
Me
You
Dinner
Out
Someone
Give
Give Me
Having
Only
Drink
Could
Never
Know
Ready
Got
Going
Just
Bar
Asked
Downside
Play
Playing
Violin
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