#violin

I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff. ↗

— Louis Prima

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At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin. ↗

— Noel Redding

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I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise. ↗

— Noel Redding

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Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you have to know these styles. ↗

— Ruggiero Ricci

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Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things. ↗

— Ruggiero Ricci

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That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra. ↗

— Anne Rice

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

— Andre Rieu

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I tried to learn the violin for a while. ↗

— Peter Wright

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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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I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play. ↗