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I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.
- Louis Prima
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I never felt like a prodigy. For one thing, the root of the word is rather monstrous, literally. I never really felt like a monster or anything abnormal, because I always had a lot of different interests. But kids tend to focus on one thing, and for me it was violin.
- Hilary Hahn
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I tried to learn the violin for a while.
- Peter Wright
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We developed our own type of Igudesman and Joo electric violin, let's say, and funny enough, the shape of it was developed by the head technician of Steinway. It's actually an electric violin, which is made from the stick that holds up the piano lid.
- Aleksey Igudesman
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I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.
- Aleksey Igudesman
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If you put your hand on the piano, you play a note. It's in tune. But if you put it on the violin, maybe it is, maybe it isn't. You have to figure it out.
- Itzhak Perlman
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In the musician, there is a tendency to have a narrowness. It's all compartmentalized. I am playing the violin; that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
- Itzhak Perlman
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I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason not to.
- Itzhak Perlman
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Although I wasn't fond of the violin in the beginning, as I played on I developed a fondness which soon turned into a passion.
- Mohan Sithara
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I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.
- Anton Seidl
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Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
- Neville Marriner
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I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.
- Edward Lear
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Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of the foremost interpreters of Bach for the violin.
- Nigel Kennedy
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My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.
- Zubin Mehta
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I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
- Vanessa Mae
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My grandma has a picture of Louis Farrakhan playing violin in her house.
- Shamir
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Some songs are just going to be acoustic with just maybe some light background stuff going on and maybe violin or something like that. Or sax - I mean, I'm definitely having some sax. That's just what I love. It's going to be jazz-rock stuff. That's what I'm aiming for.
- Phillip Phillips
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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.
- Jane Chen
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A cello can sound like so many instruments, but it's only one, you know, like a guitar; it has percussive qualities. It can sing like the violin, you know, like a voice.
- Luka Sulic
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Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.
- Luka Sulic
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The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the violin. It has the perfect shape, and its sound is the closest to the human voice.
- Luka Sulic
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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.
- Daniel Barenboim
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With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music, it is not the same at all. That's why it seemed so important to me, from the beginning of my career, to invent a grammar, a visual vocabulary adapted to electronic music.
- Jean-Michel Jarre
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
- Vanessa Mae
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When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.
- David Del Tredici
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We had a normal childhood. I played baseball, and we played violin in orchestras three times a week. I learned more from that than anything else.
- David Newman
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When I attained my seventh year, my father, whose ear was unmusical but who was nevertheless passionately fond of music, gave me my elementary lessons on the violin; in a very few months, I was able to play all manner of compositions at sight.
- Niccolo Paganini
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The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.
- Niccolo Paganini
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When I started learning the violin, my choir teacher thought I could sing. But when I first got on stage, I froze!
- Momina Mustehsan
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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.
- Gustavo Dudamel
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I was classically trained. But more than just the fact that I play violin, there's a lot of classical elements in the way I write, in the way I hear chords. A lot of times, I think of my songs as a symphony made out of electronics rather than instruments. And I love to do orchestral arrangements of my songs after they're done.
- Lindsey Stirling
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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
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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
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I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.
- Mark Foster
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If you look at somebody like Bach, he didn't need collaborators to write for keyboards, cello, violin or anything else. I feel the same way about my music. The times that I have worked with other people, I've been very unhappy with the results.
- Yngwie Malmsteen
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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.
- Jon Tester
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I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the orchestra, and when you're an actor, you're playing the violin. There's a thrill to each of them, but as the conductor, you get the fuller sound.
- Josh Radnor
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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.
- Gary Frank
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I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.
- Alison Krauss
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You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.'
- Alison Krauss
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I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and we travelled down from the Midlands for the last night of the School Proms. We played some pieces from the Harry Potter films, and the violin parts were really hard.
- Laura Mvula
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The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.
- Steve Lacy
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I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.
- Joshua Bell
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did 'The Red Violin' film, I got to go to the Oscars, and I got to meet Samuel Jackson, and I got to do stuff that one wouldn't normally do in my world.
- Joshua Bell
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The violin sings.
- Joshua Bell
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When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.
- Joshua Bell
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I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.
- Johnny Flynn
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I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that.
- Geoff Dyer
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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.
- Torrey DeVitto
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I studied violin since I was a boy, and my dream was to be a violinist and to play.
- Krzysztof Penderecki
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When you fall in love, you genuinely hear violin being played in the background. You genuinely feel that clouds are bursting and you look at every small thing as really beautiful.
- Pulkit Samrat
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I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.
- Miroslav Vitous
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My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.
- Quentin Bryce
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I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!
- Birdy
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The bass line is the anchor for me. I started with the bass, and either doubled that and then added the harmonies, or sometimes added my own harmonies that I've always wanted to sing on the song. And then it just went on from there - singing violin parts and trumpet parts and just trying to emulate the sounds of the instruments.
- Petra Haden
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I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake up in the morning wanting to do it, or go to bed thinking about it.
- Ellen Hollman
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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.
- Andrew Bird
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Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.
- Andrew Bird
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I was trained classically in violin and voice, which led to musical theater. Then I left the music scene to chase acting, which is when 'Neighbours' came along. It was a fantastic playground for actors, and the cast around me taught me a lot.
- Jesse Spencer
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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.
- Jesse Spencer
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Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what else. But if you say you have to get all A's and practice the violin for two hours, then they consider that abusive. That upsets me.
- Amy Chua
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Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?
- Andres Segovia
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A violin neck is much smaller than the guitar's, so it's much easier to play wide intervals on one violin string. On the guitar, you really have to stretch to play them.
- John Petrucci
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
- S. J. Perelman
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I sometimes use a girl singer the way Henny Youngman uses his violin - as a bridge between one laugh and the next.
- Benny Hill
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I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.
- Amar Bose
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I've always wanted to play violin.
- Maggie Rogers
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I had no idea I was gonna be a songwriter, because I was too young to know my own evolution. I started playing the violin as a way to express myself because I didn't have a lot of vocabulary when I was 14.
- Amanda Shires
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Violin was my first form of expression - and is still in a lot of ways.
- Amanda Shires
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It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.
- Mstislav Rostropovich
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The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.
- Mstislav Rostropovich
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As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark.
- Peggy Fleming
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I studied violin when I was very young.
- Lee Marvin
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I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
- Kat Dennings
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The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.
- Jose Mourinho
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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
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My fourth birthday, I was given a violin, and my fifth birthday, a guitar. I didn't start to play until I saw Hendrix on TV. They showed him setting his guitar on fire and burning it for the Monterey Pop Festival.
- Yngwie Malmsteen
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I studied classical violin and voice until I was 18 and by then I had had my fill.
- Sunny Ozell
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It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.
- Guy Clark
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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.
- Felicia Day
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K.G. Sathar, a neighbour, was my guru. He taught me the violin and Hindustani music.
- Mohan Sithara
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I actually played violin on 'E.T.' I used to be a violinist.
- David Newman
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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
- Marilyn Monroe
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I have a very simple philosophy. One has to separate the abilities from the disabilities. The fact I cannot walk, that I need crutches or a scooter or whatever it is, has nothing to do with my playing the violin.
- Itzhak Perlman
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I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
- Itzhak Perlman
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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond de Goncourt
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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
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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
- John Lubbock
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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
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Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.
- Julia Roberts
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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
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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
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I always find that there is a real communication between voice and violin.
- Itzhak Perlman
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
- Victor Borge
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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
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I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.
- Sue Townsend
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Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.
- Patrice Leconte
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I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
- Conor Oberst
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I was actually the head of the violin after-school club. And then I was also the head of the dance club, the popping club. So one day, just by coincidence, we had to hold the two clubs at the same time. I had to go back and forth. And that's when the idea came up for dancing and playing violin at the same time.
- Henry Lau
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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
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