Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alison Krauss

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

Aleksey Igudesman

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

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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

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.

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…

Joshua Bell

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.

Albert Schweitzer

All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.

Albert Schweitzer

Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.

Albert Schweitzer

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

Barry Switzer

Lovely? Well, thank you. That's kind of nice of you to say.

Bill Dunn

Last year we did 36 kinds of beer.

Japanese Proverbs

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Tom Adams

No other 1942 film would touch those kinds of numbers.

Joey Ramone

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

S. Walker

We had been doing a lot better but didn't have much to show for it. Getting this win just kind of validated that.

Publius Tacitus

Love of fame is the last thing even the wise give up

Jay DeMarcus

Mohegan Sun Walk of Fame. It's been an incredible ride, and our fans have been a big part of it.

Jane Harman

Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.

Pablo Picasso

Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Jean Lacordaire

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Don King

gained his fame not by winning, but by losing.

David Bowie

Fame puts you there where things are hollow.

William Shakespeare

I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

Barry Bonds

I guess I'm in (the Hall of Fame) then, huh? Otherwise, I really don't have a comment.