Quotes about Music Violin

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music. Votes: 1

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. Votes: 1

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all. Votes: 1

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot. Votes: 1

Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together. Votes: 1

There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.' Votes: 1

I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really enjoyed music. Votes: 1

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do. Votes: 1

I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so I always knew - I always knew that I wanted to do something that would allow me to be who I am. Generally, that was creatively, imaginatively. Votes: 1

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14. Votes: 1

When it comes to orchestral music, whenever I see a concert with orchestra and strings, and I arrive and there are speakers up, my heart always sinks a little bit, and I think, 'It's going to be down to some sound guy's ideas.' Contact microphones on the violins. I'm a purist, I suppose. Votes: 1

I've always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as my new novel, 'So Cold the River,' for which the brilliant strings piece 'Short Trip Home,' composed by Edgar Meyer and featuring the incredible Joshua Bell on violin, inspired much of the story. Votes: 1

I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds - but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn't say, 'My God, that guy can play.' It'd probably sound more like Jack Benny. Votes: 1

The older the violin, the sweeter the music. Votes: 0

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. Votes: 0

The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin. Votes: 0

Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached. Votes: 0

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti." Votes: 0

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time. Votes: 0

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin. Votes: 0

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear. Votes: 0