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Violin Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started playing violin when I was six, so I thought I could be a professional. It wasn't until I was 15 when I got into acting classes and realized this was what I wanted to do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied classical violin and voice until I was 18 and by then I had had my fill.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to play violin.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied violin when I was very young.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know exactly when I started watching television, but I know that Muppets and Smurfs hold privileged places in my memory. Without television, I surely could have mastered several classical languages or learned to play the violin, right?
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a lot of people onstage. We have a live violin, live cello, live drums played on this kind of massive electronic kit with some acoustic elements built in.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no interest or intention of ever writing music. I was a professional violinist in my 20s. I was obsessed with conducting, and I was conducting as much as I could, and I was studying as much as I could. I went to USC; I got an undergrad degree in violin and a master's degree in conducting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this weird musical thing I do: I play violin, and I even went on tour with Tim Robbins. We did a bunch of Canadian cities, and then went down to the States, and then we ended up in Japan.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know the lead singer of System of a Down, and I record violin tracks with him.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been playing the viola since I was 6 years old, and then I decided to switch it up a bit, so I've been playing the violin since I was 11. I started playing the piano when I was 11, and I started playing the guitar when I was 10.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
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- Nov 07, 2020