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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
I started playing violin when I was six, so I thought I could be a professional. It wasn't until I was 15 when I got into acting classes and realized this was what I wanted to do.
There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'
I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.
I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.
If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.
There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.
I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.
I have a very simple philosophy. One has to separate the abilities from the disabilities. The fact I cannot walk, that I need crutches or a scooter or whatever it is, has nothing to do with my playing the violin.
I know Ornette was playing violin sometimes - that was his bridge into the classical world, to break up that whole pecking order.
I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.
I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano.
When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire, 'Hey lovely, what you got there?' she said, 'Musicians who ask questions,' and kept on dragging.
I realised, however, that you can't sing when you're playing the violin - or at least I can't - and as that aspect of performing is important to me I shifted to the piano.
The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad.
I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.
Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.
When I started learning the violin, my choir teacher thought I could sing. But when I first got on stage, I froze!
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.
Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.
To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.
Although I wasn't fond of the violin in the beginning, as I played on I developed a fondness which soon turned into a passion.
I have a longing for violin or organ. Is it too simple to say those sustaining sounds symbolise immortality?
I don't think there is any end to translucence. It's an endless journey, rather like playing the violin.
I don't want to start getting my little violin out, but travelling across the world constantly and staying in hotels is tough, man.
Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.
If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.
If you play something well, I don't care what it is. I mean, I don't play an electric [violin] - I tried. It's actually interesting.
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.
I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake up in the morning wanting to do it, or go to bed thinking about it.
So I cradle this average violin that knows
Only forgotten showtunes, but argues
The possibility of free declamation anchored
To a dull refrain.
I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated.
A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very perplexing to composers.
I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.
I quit piano and violin because it felt too rigid. It was just my thing, something I fell in love with from a very early age.
Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all.
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?
I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.
I studied classical violin and voice until I was 18 and by then I had had my fill.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.
As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.
Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.
The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the violin. It has the perfect shape, and its sound is the closest to the human voice.
I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that.
It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies & played the violin: but one of the twins died, & the other has eaten the fiddle — so all is peace.
I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
I sometimes use a girl singer the way Henny Youngman uses his violin - as a bridge between one laugh and the next.
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!
I wanted to be a violin-maker like my dad, and then I wanted to be a doorman in my building.
I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason not to.
Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument.
My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.
Edgar Meyer's violin concerto was the first piece of contemporary music I worked on in any depth. I was 18 or 19.
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.