Top Violin Quotes
When I was five I had violin lessons.
Randy Bachman
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein
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
My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.
Louis Prima
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
Anton Seidl 
Honore De Balzac 
Patrice Leconte 
Edward Lear 
Conor Oberst 
Victor Borge 
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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 
63% of people like this quote
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
61% of people like this quote
My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.
Louis Prima
56% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
55% of people like this quote
Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.
Pierre Schaeffer
55% of people like this quote
Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
Lara St. John
54% of people like this quote
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge
54% of people like this quote
Popular Violin Authors
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