Violin Quotes - Page 11

• I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Moving, Twists, Tables

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• There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Hands, Weather, Trying

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.84, GENERAL PRESS

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• Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum aesthetic results, so God tailor-made our bodies, souls and spirits to work together in consonance to produce pleasing expressions of praise and worship. When we use body language to express praise, that which is internal becomes visible.

  Lamar Boschman

  Expression, Design, Soul

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• Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.

  Jason Bateman

  Acting, Orchestra, Conductor

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• Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become.

  Margaret Atwood

  Music, Squares, Romance

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Lili manages to mix Kate Bush with modern influences to make a beautifully unique sound based around her amazing violin skills and soulful voice.

  Steve Lillywhite

  Unique, Skills, Voice

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• A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Color, Yellow, Giving

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• I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Teacher, Years, Age

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• If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Order, Credit, Almighty

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• I was born with God-given gifts of very talented musical ability and exceptoinal physical coordination. I always needed prodding to practice piano, violin, cornet or French horn. I had to be pulled away from any athletic participation. Now, at 63, I look back on my athletic feats - All-American, All-Pro Quaterback, College and Pro Football Hall of Fame - and I can honestly say I would trade these all if I had been smart enough to pursue my musical career. YOUNG PEOPLE - don't make the same mistake.

  Otto Graham

  Football, Smart, Mistake

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• It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Piano, Beloved, Destination

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• The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Hero, Voice, Sopranos

  "Why the cello is a hero". Interview With Julian Lloyd Webber, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 28, 2004.

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• An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Children, Lessons, Berlin

  "Europe has to take the initiative now". Interview with Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2004.

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• I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.

  Andrew Bird

  Thinking, Tone, Kind

  "Andrew Bird On Songwriting, Chicago And Hideout’s 15th Anniversary Block Party" by Lauren Drell, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2011.

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• So I cradle this average violin that knows
  Only forgotten showtunes, but argues
  The possibility of free declamation anchored
  To a dull refrain.

  John Ashbery

  Music, Average, Dull

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in my family. My grandma was a professional violin player and my parents first met when my dad was giving my mom guitar lessons.

  Eric Hutchinson

  Mom, Song, Dad

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• For one movie, I'm learning to play a violin, and I had never picked up a violin in my life. That's a big challenge. That's what I see as one of the advantages of this business. You get to do things you'd never do, in a normal lifestyle.

  Luke Evans

  Play, Challenges, Normal

  Source: collider.com

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• There are things about how a note sounds on a violin that are really analogous to the human voice - you have a frequency and the air, and then you have a timbre which really is overtones - and making those things work together is one thing. The other thing is mechanical: If you can use your hands and arms to create sound on a fiddle, then learning to sing with it is like adding a third body part. And it's all training.

  Bruce Molsky

  Air, Hands, Voice

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• Visually I've always liked the 20s 30s for film. I do these because I like the music. I like the clothes. I like the way the women and the guys look. There are soldiers and sailors and gangsters with the machine guns in their violin cases. It's a very colorful era of New York, full of great theater and great nightclubs and great jazz.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Gun, Clothes

  Source: www.woodyallen.art.pl

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• When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

  Richard Steele

  Music, Men, Sound

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers (1822). “The Tatler”, p.376

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• I tried to learn the violin for a while.

  Peter Wright

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• I definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo that's - it's a bit showoff-y, but it's fun, so who cares?

  Andrew Bird

  Fun, Rip, Play

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin and start to play, the kind of melodies that just pour out of me. Some of them sound very classical. Some of them sound experimental, polyrhythmic loops that I make.

  Andrew Bird

  Play, Sound, Records

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.

  Larry Wall

  Running, Interesting, Musician

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It was loud in spots and less loud in other spots, and it had that quality which I have noticed in all violin solos of seeming to last much longer than it actually did.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Quality, Lasts, Loud

  P.G. Wodehouse (1989). “Aunts Omnibus”, Hutchinson

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