Violinist Quotes - Page 4

• Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

  John Philip Sousa

  Beauty, Lying, Bows

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• You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Different, Orchestra, Singers

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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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• If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Ideas, Worry

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• My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name; it's kind of random.

  Gerard Way

  Names, Mundane Life, Sims

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

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• I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a note, an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out, one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be.

  Natalie Portman

  Thinking, Knowing, Mind

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Father, Generations, Four

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• My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.

  Michala Petri

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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