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" A cello can sound like so many instruments, but it's only one, you know, like a guitar; it has percussive qualities. It can sing like the violin, you know, like a voice. "

" Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor. "

" 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. "

" A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. "

Edmond de Goncourt

" As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy. "

J. Smith-Cameron

" As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark. "

" At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin. "

" Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live! "

" Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all. "

" Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both. "

Ethel Barrymore

" Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. "

" I actually played violin on 'E.T.' I used to be a violinist. "

" I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason not to. "

" I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going. "

Miroslav Vitous

" I do basically what a conductor does with a baton, except I also play along with the orchestra. So I have to juggle the roles of playing the concertmaster; sometimes I drop the violin and wave my arms. "

" I don't want to start getting my little violin out, but travelling across the world constantly and staying in hotels is tough, man. "

" I do piano, violin, guitar, basketball, gymnastics, ballet. "

Selah Louise Marley

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

Aleksey Igudesman

" If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting. "

Leila Josefowicz

" If I like dubstep and electronic, why don't I make the violin fit me rather than making myself fit the violin? "

Lindsey Stirling

" If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger. "

" I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played. "

" If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place. "

Robert Schumann

" If you put your hand on the piano, you play a note. It's in tune. But if you put it on the violin, maybe it is, maybe it isn't. You have to figure it out. "

" I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved. "

" I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire. "

Leila Josefowicz

" I had studied violin from age 7 to 14. "

" I have a classical music background. I studied violin and trumpet. "

" I have this weird musical thing I do: I play violin, and I even went on tour with Tim Robbins. We did a bunch of Canadian cities, and then went down to the States, and then we ended up in Japan. "

" I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin. "

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