#violin

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie. ↗

— Conor Oberst

#comes #cries #cuts #each #else

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place. ↗

— Robert Schumann

#ensemble #every #first #his #musician

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do. ↗

— Barbara Sher

#every #know #like #love #make

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger. ↗

— Andy Summers

#i #instance #playing #respond #sound

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music. ↗

— Barbara Sher

#make #music #used #violins

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#aside #ballerina #being #build #craft

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? ↗

— Albert Einstein

#be happy #bowl #chair #does #else

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now. ↗

— Katherine Moennig

#call #east #east village #got #i

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