Violin Quotes - Page 2

• Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Mean, Expression, Voice

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.35, Infobase Publishing

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• Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.

  Richard Steele

  Imagination, Musical, Bears

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.279

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• A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Coffee, Land, Sandwiches

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.34, Zillmann Publishing

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• The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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• A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Stars, Men, Poetry

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• Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Two, Voice, Together

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2015). “Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.41, Modern Library

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• It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Live Concerts, Generosity, Roles

  Statement by the Minister for Agriculture, Sharon Dijksma, at the opening of the Global Oceans Action Summit for Food Security and Blue Growth, www.government.nl. April 22, 2014.

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• If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there's about one way you can make it sound: like an oboe.

  John Corigliano

  Play, Sound, Oboes

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• He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played.

  Cassandra Clare

  Bows, Shoulders, Raised

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

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• In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung a sign: "The best violins in all Italy." Not to be outdone, their next-door neighbors, the family Guarnerius, hung a bolder sign proclaiming: "The Best Violins In All The World!" At the end of the street was the workshop of Anton Stradivarius, and on its front door was a simple notice which read: "The best violins on the block."

  Freda Bright

  Family, Block, Simple

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• Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin.

  David Garrett

  Use, Limits, Sometimes

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Wine, Years, Giving

  "Three Worlds". Poem by John Townsend Trowbridge,

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• If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

  Robert Schumann

  Teamwork, Play, Team Work

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• Math is the beautiful, rich, joyful, playful, surprising, frustrating, humbling and creative art that speaks to something transcendental. It is worthy of much exploration and examination because it is intrinsically beautiful, nothing more to say. Why play the violin? Because it is beautiful! Why engage in math? Because it too is beautiful!

  James Tanton

  Beautiful, Education, Art

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• I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case

  Tomas Transtromer

  Black, Shadow, Cases

  Tomas Transtromer (2011). “The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems”, p.199, New Directions Publishing

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• Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.

  Julia Roberts

  Love Is, Goats

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• Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.

  Wim Wenders

  Sex, Tea, Cups

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.

  Barbara Sher

  Love Yourself, Acceptance, Loving Yourself

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• Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.

  Jacob Braude

  Beautiful, Humorous, Love And Marriage

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• An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, What If, Actors

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• I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

  Leila Josefowicz

  Goal

  "Leila Josefowicz: The thrill of the new". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2010.

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• I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

  Jodi Picoult

  Song, Skins, Bows

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• It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Men, Play

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• Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Hands, Evening, Problem

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.433, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

  Josephine Baker

  Dance, African American, Care

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