I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.
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Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
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There is as much difference between the stage and the film as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.
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I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is broken, sad as a woman who is growing old.
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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies...
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Politics
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. . . colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on the violin, great, calm, oscillating, splintered surgances . . . . Is this not form?
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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.
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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The violin sustains him. It is pain remembered.
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No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it.
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At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Marriage
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Happiness is only happiness if there is a violin-playing goat.
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.
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To say that a man can not love one woman at a time is ridiculous. It is like saying a musician needs more than one violin to play the same piece of music.
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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Experience
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Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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