Quotes of Violin - somelinesforyou

“ I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter. ”

- Tommy Cooper

“ Life is playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Love is not love, without a violin playing goat. ”

- Julia Roberts

“ Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. ”

- S. J. Perelman

“ Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. ”

- Vanessa Mae

“ Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. ”

- John Lubbock

“ Dance in the light of the pale cold moon to the sound of a wild violin. ”

- Erika Fawcett

“ A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? ”

- Albert Einstein

“ A violinist had a violin, a painer his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for. ”

- Josephine Baker

“ 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

“ The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. ”

- Victor Borge

“ Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- George Eliot

“ Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint. ”

- Georgia O’Keeffe

“ Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. ”

- Unknown

“ Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin — it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. ”

- Sydney Joseph Perelman

“ Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ 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

“ I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ You sigh, the song begins; you speak and I hear violins… it's magic. ”

- Doris Day

“ 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

“ Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. Rumors circulate around the schoolyard: kids who draw or wear white socks and bring violins to school on Wednesdays might have cooties. I confess to having yielded to these pressures. ”

- Chris Van Allsburg

“ Edward and I both agreed with the view of a Greek friend of ours, Jean Varda, who was fond of saying there were three perfect shapes in the world … the hull of a boat, a violin and a woman's body. ”

- Charis Wilson

“ We cannot see that enormous apparatus of force that the modern orchestra represents without feeling the most profound and total disillusion at the paltry acoustic results. Do you know of any sight more ridiculous than that of twenty men furiously bent on redoubling the mewing of a violin? ”

- Luigi Russolo

“ I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie. ”

- Conor Oberst
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