Quotes about Violins

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"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."- Samuel Butler

"I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame."- Jodi Picoult

"I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin."- Albert Einstein

"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

"Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it."- Vanessa Mae

"Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin."- John Lubbock

"When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story."- Joshua Bell

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

"If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought."- Helen Keller

"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

"Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin."- Patrice Leconte

"Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice."- Charlie Chaplin

"Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice."- Alain de Botton

"Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you."- Hal Linden

"Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along."- E.M. Forster

"The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched."- Neal A. Maxwell

"We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music."- Barbara Sher

"To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it."- Bobby Vinton

"I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know."- Lara St. John

"Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached."- Jacob Braude


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