(30 quotes found)
“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
“The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.”
Victor Borge
“A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.”
Josephine Baker
“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
“CREMONA, n. A high-priced violin made in Connecticut.”
Ambrose Bierce
“I was so little inspired by violin instruction at the Guildhall School that I kept in the cloakroom a volume of concertos edited by Joachim, which I would retrieve before my lesson and read in class. And that would be my lesson for the day.”
William Primrose
“Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.”
John Lubbock
“Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring”
S. J. Perelman
“If it hadn't been for her I wouldn't have been able to do it. She took apart the violin, piece by piece.”
Cynthia Davis
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