Quotes About Music

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 have a longing for violin or organ. Is it too simple to say those sustaining sounds symbolise immortality?

I've always wanted to play violin.

I realised, however, that you can't sing when you're playing the violin - or at least I can't - and as that aspect of performing is important to me I shifted to the piano.

We get so many kids telling us that they've taken up the violin or cello. It's really special, and it wasn't really our intention in the beginning.

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.

And I also think it's a violin when you're selling it and a fiddle when you're buying it.

The violin has always been important for me. My mom was a single mom and we moved around a lot, and so the violin was always the one constant I had. I always feel better when I had my violin. Playing it is cathartic.

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 learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano.

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.

We have a lot of people onstage. We have a live violin, live cello, live drums played on this kind of massive electronic kit with some acoustic elements built in.

Edgar Meyer's violin concerto was the first piece of contemporary music I worked on in any depth. I was 18 or 19.

I studied classical violin and voice until I was 18 and by then I had had my fill.

I was leaving my violin out of a lot of songs, and that's a strange thing to do because I've been playing the violin since I was 2. It's a part of me. Adding pedals and sounds is great because I get to play the instrument I feel most comfortable on and the one I feel gives my truest expression when I'm making a solo or anything like that.

K.G. Sathar, a neighbour, was my guru. He taught me the violin and Hindustani music.

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

I started playing violin when I was about five years old and I learned to read a little bit of music, but that's all been long, long forgotten! I actually quit violin to teach myself guitar and just went from there.

I grew up playing piano and violin, and then basketball took over.

My mum would take us to ballet, and we used to go as a family to Brownies. My dad used to take us to Saturday music school. My parents would never say: 'Oh, you've got to practice your violin now before tea.' We were self-motivated.

I always wanted to do a song with a violin; I always loved the sound of the instrument, especially for melodic stuff.

Viral don't mean I'm outside wilding. I can go viral in the club or in the studio.

'Cleveland' went viral, but it didn't necessarily pop. I didn't have that support. I didn't have a deal when I made 'Cleveland' or anything like that.