#violin

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

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

— Andre Rieu

#assumed #everyone #first #five #i

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

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

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#basis #between #characteristics #comparison #complex

Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer? ↗

— Andres Segovia

#electric #heard #matter #singer #violin

My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#badly #bassist #brother #cello #double

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