#violin

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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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

#moral #play #stick #story #tell

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. ↗

— Denise Van Outen

#changing #growing #growing up #guess #i

I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played. ↗

— Andre Rieu

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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet. ↗

— Yehudi Menuhin

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If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting. ↗

— Leila Josefowicz

#before #done #exciting #great #i

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#around #band #bricks #came #choir

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

#basis #between #characteristics #comparison #complex