#violin

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

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. ↗

— Eugene Ormandy

#center #how #i #just #last

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 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

#era #grateful #having #history #i

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

#any #board #fly #honest #i

I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade. ↗

— Adam Jones

#grade #i #into #played #program

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

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

#away #because #been #color #creed