Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Violins.
The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm
Leonard Bernstein
I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.
Jodi Picoult
The thumb does not have very a important role when shifting from one position to another. There is too much said, as it seems to me, about importance of the thumb... The thumb must lightly touch the neck and follow the forefinger when moving in different positions, aiding the hand to shift up and down without clutching the instrument.
Leopold Auer, regarding the viol
. . . colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on the violin, great, calm, oscillating, splintered surgances . . . . Is this not form?
Giacomo Puccini, from Talks with
If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.note: Whenever Heifetz played in trios with Arthur Rubinstein (piano) and Gregor Piatigorsky (cello), Rubinstein always got top billing.
Jascha Heifetz, "Los Angeles Tim
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge
I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is broken, sad as a woman who is growing old.
Jean Rhys
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
Edmond de Goncourt
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 Alexander Schumann
There is as much difference between the stage and the film as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.
Ethel Barrymore, "The New York P
No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it.
Jim Fiebig, "United Feature Synd
