Quotes About Talent

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that.

I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.

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

My fourth birthday, I was given a violin, and my fifth birthday, a guitar. I didn't start to play until I saw Hendrix on TV. They showed him setting his guitar on fire and burning it for the Monterey Pop Festival.

I studied violin when I was very young.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't really like the violin. I was only doing it because I could, and I was good at it, and everyone was encouraging me. But I didn't have a great love for it.

I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and we travelled down from the Midlands for the last night of the School Proms. We played some pieces from the Harry Potter films, and the violin parts were really hard.

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

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.

My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor.

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

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

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

I've been playing the viola since I was 6 years old, and then I decided to switch it up a bit, so I've been playing the violin since I was 11. I started playing the piano when I was 11, and I started playing the guitar when I was 10.

I've always wanted to play violin.

I never felt like a prodigy. For one thing, the root of the word is rather monstrous, literally. I never really felt like a monster or anything abnormal, because I always had a lot of different interests. But kids tend to focus on one thing, and for me it was violin.

Kids would come up to me after concerts and give me drawings they've made of violins or, you know, landscapes with a violin floating in it or some sketch of a concert or a portrait of me.

Most kids are very seriously interested in something - friends, math, shopping, sports. For me it happened to be music and the violin. I had the chance to pursue it without having it get in the way of my life.

Although I wasn't fond of the violin in the beginning, as I played on I developed a fondness which soon turned into a passion.

I was the kid who didn't speak English, with a violin and ballroom dance shoes.

I first started playing the violin at 6. And then at 7, it was piano. So from then it was just classical music like every day.

I've played classical violin since I was 5 years old.