Quotes with violin

  • 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.
  • If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
  • Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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  • Albert Einstein A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what a man needs to be happy ?
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Amos Oz A translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano.
    The Believer Interview 20 oct 2016
    Amos Oz
    Israeli writer (1939 - 2018)
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  • Alain de Botton Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well; and requires no less practice.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Ethel Barrymore 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
    American actress (1879 - 1959)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Napoleon 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
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Adam Jones I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
    Adam Jones
    American musician (1965 - )
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  • Robert Schumann 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
    German composer (1810 - 1856)
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  • Caroline Shaw It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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  • Samuel Butler Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Samuel Butler Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Sydney Joseph Perelman Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe 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
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Honoré de Balzac The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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