Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleksey Igudesman

I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.

David Garrett

Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin.

Daniel Barenboim

I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way.

Alison Krauss

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

CREMONA, n. A high-priced violin made in Connecticut.

George Eliot

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.

John Coltrane

The first violins have the most interesting part.

Louisa May Alcott

…the violin — that most human of all instruments…

Larry McMurtry

The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

Richard D. James

Well, I just bought a massive bank and I've moved into it on my own.

Burt Reynolds

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

Carrot Top

Comics don't like to see other comics do well.

Alan Lightman

As I understand it, a universe is a ... well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.

David Nicholls

Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.

Abraham Lincoln

Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself

Deniece Schofield

Even an organized person has days that aren't efficient and well-managed.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well

Aristotle

Love well, be loved and do something of value.