Quotes About Violinist

I think I've been lucky to work with so many lovely people. But there's Joshua Bell, who's the world's greatest violinist. We worked together live and once, for his record, but I really would want to work with him on one of my records.

My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

A violinist fiddled.With strings resined for winter.Summer's light splintered.

Hello again, violinist,' he said in a hoarse voice. 'Fancy meeting you here.

I think that if a real princess was lost in this modern world and she could be whatever she wanted, she would be a musician,' Blanche said slowly. 'A violinist, or a harpist. That would be the only place where she could find solace for her lost kingdom.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

If my career doesn't work out as a violinist, I want to become an archaeologist. I've read about paleontology, too - that's dinosaur bones - but I thought it would be more interesting to do archaeology.

As a dancing violinist, there have been a couple of moments where I'm like, 'Oops! This is an expensive mistake!'

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

I'm really just a frustrated violinist.

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

I began as a violinist, not a composer. Thus my contact with orchestral musicians, with the source of music, is very important.

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

My parents raised me with a never-give-up attitude, telling me I could be anything I wanted to be. I was a serious violinist and a valedictorian of my high school class. I knew all about hard work.

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.

My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

When people watch me on TV, they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years.

Wo wei ni xie de," he said, as he raised the violin to his left shoulder, tucking it under his chin. He had told her many violinists used a shoulder rest, but he did not: there was a slight mark on the side of his throat, like a permanent bruise, where the violin rested. "You — made something for me?" Tessa asked. "I wrote something for you," he corrected, with a smile, and began to play.

My earliest memories are listening to my Grandmother playing the piano at our house as I jumped up and down on the couch. She was a violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony in the 30s and 40s, and was a huge influence on me.

David Harrington, who's the violinist and founder of Kronos, is a super open-minded and adventurous guy.