#violin

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

#aiming #background #definitely #going #having

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

— Louis Prima

#hair #i #long #long hair #making

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

— Noel Redding

#mandolin #nine #onto #playing #school

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

— Noel Redding

#best #did #had #i #likewise

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

#different #every #everyone #important #know

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

#always #course #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing

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

#become #group #like #lonely #might

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

— Andre Rieu

#assumed #everyone #first #five #i

I tried to learn the violin for a while. ↗

— Peter Wright

#i tried #learn #tried #violin #while

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

— Yehudi Menuhin

#half #human #peculiarly #phenomenon #poet