#violin

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

— Yehudi Menuhin

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I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing. ↗

— Dan Hicks

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The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments ↗

— Charles-Auguste de Beriot

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A thousand violins cloy very rapidly without percussion. ↗

— John Fowles

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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself. ↗

— Lindsey Stirling

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…the violin — that most human of all instruments… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age. ↗

— Paul Desmond

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I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well. ↗

— Alison Krauss

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You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.' ↗

— Alison Krauss

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