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Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.
I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time ... wow.
Very touching. Do you want me to imitate a violin?
A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.
I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing.
When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.
Where do you want to go?
Back to violinist. I want to hear songs about suicide.
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.
The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every instrument is precious and adds to the complex beauty of the symphony.
I've cried over string arrangements.
We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time
One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.
All I could hear was the violin, and it was as if Juliek's soul had become his bow. He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future.
If you were able to hear lime juice, it would sound like violins.
A symphony is no joke.
I don't sleep with a violin in my bed, but there is something very magical about the instrument. You open up the case; it's a masterpiece, it's gorgeous, the varnish is still there from 300 years ago. People who know violins, they look at it and it's almost like a face.
I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin.
For a musician, smelling a new violin was the equivalent of a reader smelling a new novel. It was a homelike scent that made you realize that the world wasn't a completely terrible place, that there was still beauty that existed.
When I was five I had violin lessons.
Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.
What the hell is an oboe?
There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm ...
I could spit dust I'm so mad. He wants to put violins on my new session. I'll die before I'll go all the way pop.
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
the mighty harmonies of Beethoven
The strings all soar,
The reeds implore,
The brasses roar with notes galore.
It's music that we all adore
It's what we go to concerts for.
I've just confirmed every bad joke ever told about second violin players. Question: How many second violinists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Answer: They can't go that high. Gerda
I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.
The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
They'd been played. By a tuba!
Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.
Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?
I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.
We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.
It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.
It seems like everyone's listening to fiddles and banjos.
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
I played cello in my high school orchestra.
To take up the violin or any instrument was an act of hope, it implied a future.
The Musicians of Bremen
Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble.
Bells, the poor man's only music.
Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.
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.
The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?
When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.
Jutta drags herself closer; she watches her brother with outsize eyes. A piano chases the violins. Then woodwinds. The strings sprint, woodwinds fluttering behind. More instruments join in. Flutes? Harps? The song races, seems to loop back over itself. "Werner?" Jutta whispers. He blinks;
My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.
The viola and the clarinet made for an interesting pairing: we had to imagine the accompaniment of other instruments, ideally a violin and a cello.
Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.
I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.
The banjo am the instrument for me.
The oboe's a horn made of wood.
I'd play you a tune if I could,
But the reeds are a pain,
And the fingering's insane.
It's the ill wind that no one blows good.
The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven's. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The richest, the most seductive, was written by Max Bruch. But the most inward, the heart's jewel, is Mendelssohn's.
Bagpipes and electric guitars usually end in tears
We need to play each others instruments.
The girl doesn't need a violin," he added. "She needs to have
her hands bound so she can never touch an instrument again.
Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
By the age of eleven it was . . . too late for the piano and the violin.
I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
This young man is an exceptionally gifted and talented violinist ... He is a first class talent ...
Oh good lord, I'm in a three-way with a cello.
The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc to lap, a many-legged beast trundling with joy and vision.
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.
If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.
What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music
reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.
I am grateful that their unyielding passion is completely allowed to flow through their delicate fingers and wrists onto their lovely instruments, sharing this on a level which is beyond words, resonating with one's deepest soul.
I don't play an instrument. I pretend. I try to.
Strike the concertina's melancholy string!
Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing!
Let the piano's martial blast
Rouse the Echoes of the Past
The piano is an orchestra with 88 ... things, you know
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.
You got to think a musical instrument is human or, anyway, alive ... You take a fiddle now, we say it has a neck, and in the human neck what do you find? Vocal cords like strings, where the sound comes from.
Happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat.
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
I play a bunch of instruments.
However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again ...
For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you." Every hair on my body stands on end,
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.
It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.
You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.
Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Aleksey and I have gathered together a bunch of kindred spirits who are also versatile musicians. We have a violinist who eats fire, another who is an acrobat, and a flutist who beats boxes. We hope in years to come to tour the U.S. with our 'League of X-traordinary musicians.'
There were nauseous musical instruments, stringed, grass, and wood-wind, on which St. John and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodaemoniacal ghastliness ...
So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.
I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.
The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.
The ukulele is the instrument of peace,
I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
I also play fiddle, banjo and mandolin.
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.