#violin

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. ↗

— S. J. Perelman

#dying #love #love is #moan #triumphant

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 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 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