I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis. Anton Seidl
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
There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising. Wynton Marsalis
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece. Elliott Carter
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. Itzhak Perlman
I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know. Lara St. John
Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time. Lara St. John
When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they stood pressed against each other.
Someone must have heard them in the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: Is the playing perhaps unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away. On the contrary, said the middle gentleman, would the young lady not like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after all, much more cosy and comfortable? Oh yes, we'd love to, called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player himself.
I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie. Conor Oberst
