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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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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The thumb does not have very a important role when shifting from one position to another. There is too much said, as it seems to me, about importance of the thumb... The thumb must lightly touch the neck and follow the forefinger when moving in different positions, aiding the hand to shift up and down without clutching the instrument.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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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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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
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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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The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm
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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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No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it.
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Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
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Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio
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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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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
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