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violin Quotes and Quotations
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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 | top
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Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both. Ethel Barrymore | top
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler | top
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I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world! Will M. Cook | top
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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 | top
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I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age. Paul Desmond | top
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Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle. Anne Dudley | top
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At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist. George Duke | top
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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 | top
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I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin. Kevin Eubanks | top
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No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it. Jim Fiebig | top
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I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. Quincy Jones | top
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I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace. Edward Lear | top
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Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin. Patrice Leconte | top
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The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within. Yehudi Menuhin | top
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Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things. Ruggiero Ricci | top
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When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down. Ruggiero Ricci | top
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That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra. Anne Rice | top
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Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat. Julia Roberts | top
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Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception. Pierre Schaeffer | top
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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 | top
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music. Barbara Sher | top
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If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger. Andy Summers | top
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When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line. David Del Tredici | top
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I tried to learn the violin for a while. Peter Wright | top