Violin Quotes - Page 5

• I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

  Edwin Land

  Play, Mind, Orchestra

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• [As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those symphony orchestras. If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club. For me music was not about that. It is about freedom and expression and individuality and impulsiveness and spontaneity. It wasn't so Apollonian; it was more Dionysian.

  Bjork

  School, Kids, Expression

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.stereogum.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Thinking, Giving

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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

  Play, Giving, Dinner

  "How I Dress now: Charlie Siem". www.esquire.com. March 07, 2013.

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• When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course, he saw that her self-effacing proposal was quite irrelevant. All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. Love and patience- if only he had had them both at once- would surely have seen them both through.

  Ian Mcewan

  Girl, Self, His Love

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• I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

  Noel Redding

  Taken, Mates

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• God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. . . . God will tutor us by trying us because He loves us, not because of indifference!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Father, Lds, Soul

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• The military doesn't teach rifle marksmanship. It teaches equipment familiarity. Despite what the officer corps thinks, learning to shoot a rifle is not like learning to drive a car. Instead, it is like learning to play the violin.... The equipment familiarity learning curve comes up quick, but then the rifle marksmanship continuation of the curve rises very slowly....by shooting one careful shot at a time, carefully inspecting the result (and the cause).

  Daryl Davis

  Military, Gun, Thinking

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• I pressed PLAY and started up Chiron's favorite--the All-Time Greatest Hits of Dean Martin. Suddenly the air was filled with violins and a bunch of guys moaning in Italian. The demon pigeons went nuts. They started flying in circles, running into each other like they wanted to bash their own brains out.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Italian, Air

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

  Neville Marriner

  Symphony, Piano, Opera

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• I more or less think that the trombone was chosen for me. I first selected a violin, which I didn't do too well with, and, ironically, the only thing left was the trombone. My next choice was a saxophone, but they didn't have any; so I think that the Creator had a lot to do with what I did...Because things just happened, you know, and I had no control over it. And I ended up with my instrument that I play now.

  Curtis Fuller

  Thinking, Play, Choices

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• It's no use practicing too much. First you have to find out how to do it best. You have to be able to invent ways of doing better. Not only practice; obviously you have to practice. But to invent things how to do better. If somebody doesn't know what invention means, he should stop violin playing! You can't explain everything... Not practicing only: Think how to achieve quality.

  Nathan Milstein

  Music, Mean, Thinking

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• If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

  Leila Josefowicz

  Add, Done, Exciting

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

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• I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the orchestra, and when you're an actor, you're playing the violin. There's a thrill to each of them, but as the conductor, you get the fuller sound.

  Josh Radnor

  Sound, Directors, Thrill

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

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• But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold - and yet if you'd never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn't believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed.

  N. T. Wright

  Beautiful, Believe, Hands

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• The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.

  Jose Mourinho

  Play, Stories, Moral Of The Story

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• Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.

  Hal Linden

  Golf, Play, Painful

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• The girl doesn’t need a violin,” he added. “She needs to have her hands bound so she can never touch an instrument again.

  Julia Quinn

  Girl, Hands, Needs

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• 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

  George Eliot

  God, Men, Hands

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.254

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• I practice three hours daily on my violin so I won't get worse.

  Jack Benny

  Practice, Three, Hours

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• He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless.

  Cassandra Clare

  Grace, Beloved, Clockwork Prince

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.650, Simon and Schuster

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

  Andrew Bird

  Thinking, Play, Instruments

  "Interview: Andrew Bird And The Concept Of Cultivated Precariousness". Interview with Jay Donovan, techcrunch.com. March 6, 2012.

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• I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! I'm starting to learn guitar.

  Birdy

  Guitar, Play, Used

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• The best way would be education and kids and all that stuff and then education and working education comes through. Then I started a music school and the music school now teaches kids to play the violin and the viola.

  A. R. Rahman

  School, Kids, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Numbers, Chess, Inferiors

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