Violin Quotes - Page 13

• [Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin.

  Stephane Grappelli

  Jazz, Wells, Understood

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• In contemporary music, the challenge for me is to make the recorder sound as naturally expressive as, for example, the violin - without doing it too much and forcing the instrument. It is very easy to be overly expressive on the recorder, and finding the balance is quite difficult.

  Michala Petri

  Challenges, Balance, Too Much

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• Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

  Michala Petri

  Piano, Recorders, Courses

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• The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

  Brett Weston

  Art, Cameras, Tools

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• I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus.

  John Lennon

  Song, Writing, Play

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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