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“Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum aesthetic results, so God tailor-made our bodies, souls and spirits to work together in consonance to produce pleasing expressions of praise and worship. When we use body language to express praise, that which is internal becomes visible.”

“The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.”

Song Voice Elements Approach Instruments Intensity Violin Flutes Tenors Sopranos Clarinet Baritones

Author:Steve Lacy

“We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician's instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not disciplined?”

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Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz.”

Thinking Knows Mean Voice Wind Instruments Jazz Strings Versus Horns Bass Violin Trumpets Wind Instruments

Author:Debbie Harry

“Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin.”

Feels Sometimes Use Limits Instruments Classical Music Violin

Author:David Garrett

“[When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes. And others are just washboards.”

Ifs Courses Voice Instruments Pens Fountain Violin Fountain Pens Stethoscope

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.”

Knows Should Looks Reason Play Character Actors Difficult Instruments Assuming Technique No Reason Violin Effortless Violinist Dexterity

Book:Challenge For The Actor

Source: Challenge For The Actor

“It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.”

Aim Instruments Beloved Piano Destination Violin

Author:Mstislav Rostropovich

“The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.”

Voice Hero Instruments Feminine Masculine Violin Register Orators Tenors Sopranos

Author:Mstislav Rostropovich

“I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.”

Thinking Feels Kind Remember Young Hours Instruments Notes Tone Violin Resonance

Author:Andrew Bird

“Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's a physical habit that can be replicated. For pianists, this is much more of a problem than for other instruments, like the violin, where you actually have to think of the pitch.”

Thinking Want Play Problem Seems Remember Keys Habit Instruments Notes Violin Pianist

Author:Carlo Grante

“I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin.”

Has Beens Play Known Player Instruments Violin Blenders

Author:Itzhak Perlman

“I don't sleep with a violin in my bed, but there is something very magical about the instrument. You open up the case; it's a masterpiece, it's gorgeous, the varnish is still there from 300 years ago. People who know violins, they look at it and it's almost like a face.”

People Knows Years Looks Stills Faces Sleep Cases Bed Years Ago Instruments Masterpiece Gorgeous Violin

Author:Joshua Bell

“In contemporary music, the challenge for me is to make the recorder sound as naturally expressive as, for example, the violin - without doing it too much and forcing the instrument. It is very easy to be overly expressive on the recorder, and finding the balance is quite difficult.”

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Author:Michala Petri

“I more or less think that the trombone was chosen for me. I first selected a violin, which I didn't do too well with, and, ironically, the only thing left was the trombone. My next choice was a saxophone, but they didn't have any; so I think that the Creator had a lot to do with what I did...Because things just happened, you know, and I had no control over it. And I ended up with my instrument that I play now.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Wells Play Choices Next Left Happened Instruments Creator Chosen Over It Violin Selected Saxophone Trombone

Author:Curtis Fuller

“I've had it for about 13 years, and I don't see any reason to change, I find that the violin just keeps responding really well. It changes itself every year; it ages, it goes through all these different environmental changes, and of course, the travelling...It develops on its own, just as any performer does. It's a very stable instrument, so I can rely on it, but at the same time it always shows me a different side of things than I expect.”

Years Wells Doe I Can Different Reason Shows Age Courses Sides Instruments Environmental Rely Performers Stable Show Me Violin Responding Different Sides Environmental Change

Author:Hilary Hahn

“All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.”

Sweet Music Is Singing Instruments Singers Score Violin Chorus Baritones Oboes

Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

“I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at it thinking, how am I going to do this if I don't play guitar or keyboards? How am I going to write and record a song if I don't know how to play any instruments? I mean, I played the violin, but I didn't know anything about how to work a 4-track.”

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Author:Petra Haden

“An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?”

Ifs Care Actors Inspiring Instruments Supposed To Be Sensitive What If Violin Isaac

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.”

Knows Believe Humans Play Character Body Actors Human Beings Consciousness Truth Is Instruments Wheels Collectives Life Experience Violin

Author:John C. Reilly

“The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words 'one flesh' would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.”

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and the reed instruments had the good taste to admire my jacket. The Trumpets held a parade in honor of our great nation, while the French Horns waxed nostalgic about something or other. The Trombones had too much to drink. The Percussion beat the band, and the Tuba stayed home playing cards with his landlady, the Harp, taking sips of warm milk a blue little cup. “But the Composer is still dead.”

“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”

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Author:Samuel Butler

“The violin - that most human of all instruments.”

Humans Instruments Violin

Book:Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys & A Sequel - Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (Children’s Classics Series – Illustrated Edition)

Source: Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys & A Sequel - Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (Children’s Classics Series – Illustrated Edition)

“The girl doesn’t need a violin,” he added. “She needs to have her hands bound so she can never touch an instrument again.”

Needs Hands Girl Instruments Bounds Violin

Author:Julia Quinn

“A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.”

Care Instruments Dance Painter African American Violin Palette Violinist

Author:Josephine Baker

“Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject: One can judge a building without knowing where to buy the bricks; one can understand a violin sonata without knowing how to score for the instrument. The work may in fact be better understood without a knowledge of the details of its manufacture, of attention to these tends to distract from meaning and effect.”

May Facts Understanding Attention Knowledge Knowing Subjects Effects Building Judging Understood Instruments Workers Details Score Bricks Convenient Violin True Knowledge Sonatas

Author:Jacques Barzun

“Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.”

Seems Age Instruments Musical Edges Teeth Piano Violin Musical Instruments

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“The only thing I can say that is not bullshit is that you do have to learn to write in a way that you would learn to play the violin. Everybody seems to think that you should be able to turn on the faucet one day and out will come the novel. I think for most people it's just practice, practice, practice, that sense of just learning your instrument until - when you have an idea on the violin, you don't have to translate it into violin-speak anymore - the language is your own. It's not something you can think your way into, or outsmart. you've just got to do it.”

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Author:Kevin Canty

“A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.”

Giving Color Instruments Various Warm Tone Shade Relative Yellow Parallels Violin

Author:Wassily Kandinsky