#violin

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. ↗

— John Lubbock

#like #practiced #thing #violin

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

#before #began #five #four #i

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

— Yehudi Menuhin

#half #human #peculiarly #phenomenon #poet

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

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#ballet #fight #growing #growing up #had

When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down. ↗

— Ruggiero Ricci

#better #down #go #hear #him

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

#apparently #call #emphasis #help #horn

A thousand violins cloy very rapidly without percussion. ↗

— John Fowles

#music

When I was five I had violin lessons. ↗

— Randy Bachman

#had #i #lessons #violin

Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle. ↗

— Anne Dudley

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