Violin Quotes

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

  Joshua Bell

  Play, Stories, Pieces

  FaceBook post by Joshua Bell from Apr 08, 2015

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

  John Lubbock

  Happiness, Life And Love, Art Of Happiness

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• I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

  Albert Einstein

  Joy, Knows

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

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Educational, Learning

  Speech at the Somerville Club, 27 Feb. 1895, in R. A. Streatfield Essays on Life, Art and Science (1904) p. 69

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• The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Soul, Strings

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• A violin should be played with love, or not at all.

  Joseph Wechsberg

  Should

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• The violin - that most human of all instruments.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Instruments, Humans

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys & A Sequel - Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (Children’s Classics Series – Illustrated Edition)”, p.510, e-artnow

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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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  "Albert Einstein". Book by Dana Meachen Rau (p. 19), 2003.

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• The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.

  Jessie Andrews

  People, Age, Matter

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• if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Would Be, Strings, Ache

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

  Vanessa Mae

  Art, Tradition, Behinds

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• There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.

  James O'Barr

  Men, Nerves, Arms

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• As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark

  Peggy Fleming

  Children, Thinking, Sparks

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• However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Play

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

  Stendhal

  Writing, Soul, Sound

  Stendhal (2003). “The Red and the Black”, p.11, Modern Library

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• The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

  Larry McMurtry

  Aging, Dove, Lonesome

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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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, Artist, Power

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• We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

  Barbara Sher

  Music, Used

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• I don't sleep with a violin in my bed, but there is something very magical about the instrument. You open up the case; it's a masterpiece, it's gorgeous, the varnish is still there from 300 years ago. People who know violins, they look at it and it's almost like a face.

  Joshua Bell

  Sleep, Years, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

  Helen Keller

  Perfect, Greek, Musical

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.174, 谷月社

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• Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

  Charlie Chaplin

  Thinking, Practice, Piano

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• I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

  Joshua Bell

  Play, Chance

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

  Victor Borge

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• 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

  Girl, Lying, Eye

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• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  S. J. Perelman

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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