Violin Quotes

• The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Soul, Strings

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• I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

  Albert Einstein

  Joy, Knows

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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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• When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

  Joshua Bell

  Play, Stories, Pieces

  FaceBook post by Joshua Bell from Apr 08, 2015

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

  John Lubbock

  Happiness, Life And Love, Art Of Happiness

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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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  "Albert Einstein". Book by Dana Meachen Rau (p. 19), 2003.

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• A violin should be played with love, or not at all.

  Joseph Wechsberg

  Should

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• The violin - that most human of all instruments.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Instruments, Humans

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys & A Sequel - Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (Children’s Classics Series – Illustrated Edition)”, p.510, e-artnow

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• The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.

  Jessie Andrews

  People, Age, Matter

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• if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Would Be, Strings, Ache

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

  Vanessa Mae

  Art, Tradition, Behinds

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• 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

  Love, Artist, Power

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• However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Play

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.

  James O'Barr

  Men, Nerves, Arms

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• We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

  Barbara Sher

  Music, Used

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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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• The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

  Larry McMurtry

  Aging, Dove, Lonesome

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

  Joshua Bell

  Play, Chance

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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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• A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

  Stendhal

  Writing, Soul, Sound

  Stendhal (2003). “The Red and the Black”, p.11, Modern Library

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• Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

  Charlie Chaplin

  Thinking, Practice, Piano

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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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• 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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• 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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• Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

  Julia Roberts

  Happiness, Goats

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