Vanessa Mae
Violinist, Singer
"Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it."
Violin quotes
Violin
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Albert Einstein
Physicist
"I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin."
Louisa May Alcott
Novelist, Poet
"The violin - that most human of all instruments."
E. M. Forster
Novelist, Essayist
"Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along."
Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
"if a violin string could ache, i would be that string."
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"To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth."
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"Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings."
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"Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission."
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"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."
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"When I was five I had violin lessons."
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"Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less."
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"I tried to learn the violin for a while."
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"I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five."
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"Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair."
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"Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse."
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"For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin."
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