Violin Quotes

You want to hear the violin burp. The violin can even sound like a monster. Isn't that cool? - Mark Wood

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.' - Alison Krauss

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you. - David Ogden Stiers

You couldn't have designed a more perfect training ground for young actors, with a sort of sensei (mentor) like with Francis... He just knew how to play each of us like a violin. - Patrick Swayze

Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of the foremost interpreters of Bach for the violin. - Nigel Kennedy

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin. - Patrice Leconte

Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer? - Andres Segovia

When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down. - Ruggiero Ricci