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“At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the violin came in by itself, I was suddenly filled with gold and fire, and with red so bright I could not remember having seen it on any object.”

Ifs Remember Music Fire Objects Red Gold Filled Painter Colour Concerts Rainbow Orchestra Violin

Author:James Elkins

“A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile... the reason violinists play violins that are hundreds of years old. The wood learns to sing.”

Ifs Knows Years Kind Reason Play Music Pieces Periods Guitar Woods Violin Violinist Resonating

Author:Dave Genn

“Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?”

Thinking Giving Music Damn Pathetic Violin

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull refrain.”

Knows Music Possibility Musician Forgotten Average Arguing Dull Cradle Violin Refrain Declamation

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross, no "Our Father" to save him. Her curse takes him like a fish in a net and the Mistress of the Water awaits him on the edge of the spring and smiles upon him and tells him to follow her to the depths, from which he will never return.”

Men Long Song Father Sound Water Music Hair Return Musician Spring Crosses Depth Edges Fishes Curse Old Man Village Midnight Mistress Our Father Violin Dripping Long Hair Perdition Mulattoes

Author:Jacques Roumain

“The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.”

May Play Order Language Sound Poor Music Musician Notes Neighbor Tone Strings Mastery Conventional Norm Violin Intervals Rendering Violinist Discrete

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.”

Men Sound Music Harmony Violin Disagreeable

Book:The Tatler

Source: The Tatler

“Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.”

Feels Film Differences Music Stage Piano Violin Virtuoso

Author:Ethel Barrymore

“And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross.”

Soul Music Mouths Rivers Crosses Photograph Shoulders My Soul Yield Flood Disguise Violin Dew Thighs Moss Vienna Hyacinths

Author:Leonard Cohen

“I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.”

Age Father Music Jazz Discouraged Violin

Author:Paul Desmond

“Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become.”

Romance Suffering Music Four Beats Radio Entertainment Squares Electric Twisted Violin Wailing Entertainment Business

Book:The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists.”

Way Ideas Voice Music Violin Trombone Instrumentalists

Author:Frank Sinatra