#violins

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

A thousand violins cloy very rapidly without percussion. ↗

— John Fowles

#music

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#love #man #music #needs #piece

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

#films #good #got #middle #more

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

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

— Barbara Sher

#make #music #used #violins

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#better #echo #going #hearing #i

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#deep #hear #i #often #orchestra