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

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“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.”

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Author:Cassandra Clare

“There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.”

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Author:Jascha Heifetz

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

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.”

People Matter Wish Sides Findings Musician Argument No Matter What Intelligence Arguing Favourite Your Side Violinist

Author:Jascha Heifetz

“Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.”

May Dream Beautiful Peace Sound Simple Quality Strength Ideals Requirements Finding Peace Conductor Peacemaking Being At Peace International Peace Violinist Peace Is Every Step Beautiful Words

Author:Yehudi Menuhin

“The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“Whether you want to be the top violinist or a CEO, strangely enough, hard work and perseverance can overcome a lot of things.”

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Author:J Clifford Hudson

“Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists”

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Author:Mikhail Botvinnik

“But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a space next to oneself to be filled by others - a friend, a lover, a toy poodle, a violinist on the radio.”

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Author:Yiyun Li

“I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.”

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Author:Pablo Casals

“My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name; it's kind of random.”

Knows Names Violinist Mundane Life Sims

Author:Gerard Way

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

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Author:Gyorgy Ligeti

“Scott Tixier is an exciting young jazz violinist and is making an international name for himself. I heard him in France and was immediately struck by his individuality and his sound.”

Young Names Sound Heard Exciting Jazz International Individuality France Violinist

Author:Marcus Miller

“Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.”

Art Behinds Tradition Violin Violinist

Author:Vanessa Mae

“The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.”

Humans Half Poet Phenomenon Tigers Potency Violinist

Book:Life class: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist

Source: Life class: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist

“The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.”

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Book:Life class: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist

Source: Life class: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist

“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.”

Ifs Play Better Than You Violinist

Author:Ruggiero Ricci

“Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you have to know these styles.”

Knows Important Different Able Style Recognise Different Styles Violinist

Author:Ruggiero Ricci

“It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had a good technique, they were not tonally as good.”

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Author:Ruggiero Ricci

“This young man is an exceptionally gifted and talented violinist ... He is a first class talent.”

Men Firsts Young Class Talent Young Man Gifted First Class Violinist

Author:Ruggiero Ricci

“Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a successful teaching studio; wrote thousands of letters; traveled widely; attended the theater religiously; played cards, billiards, and bocce; and rode horseback for exercise. Not bad for someone portrayed as a giggling idiot in the movies.”

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Author:Robert Greenberg

“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.”

People Giving Years Has Beens Matter Young Joy Race Color Dancer Awards Creeds Terrific Violinist

Author:Sally Kirkland

“The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks, the solo violinist came to Stravinsky and said he was sorry, he had tried his best, the passage was too difficult, no violinist could play it. Stravinsky said, 'I understand that. What I am after is the sound of someone trying to play it.'”

Trying Said Play Difficult Sound Pieces Written Week Sorry Passages Composer Solo Rehearsal Violin Violinist Stravinsky

Author:Thomas Powers

“Where love is deep, much can be accomplished.”

Love Is Accomplished Violinist

Author:Shinichi Suzuki

“Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.”

“I called the great French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and I said 'So, who's the new cat? Who's got the stuff? And he said Zach Brock.”

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Author:Stanley Clarke

“Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.”

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Author:Itzhak Perlman

“I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.”

Thinking Mean I Can Play Stuff Type Access Servant Composer Flexible Classical Music Violinist

Author:Nigel Kennedy

“Im one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. Im just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.”

Play Lasts Boys Lucky Standing Casinos Violinist

Author:Eugene Ormandy

“The most important thing to do is really listen.”

Important Important Things Things To Do Conductor Violinist

Author:Itzhak Perlman

“Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.”

Art Music Musician Music Is Notes Conductor Violinist

Author:Isaac Stern

“How do I get to Carnegie Hall?”

Inspirational Music Musician Halls Violinist Carnegie Carnegie Hall

Author:Mischa Elman

“The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm”

Firsts I Can Play Enthusiasm Plenty Fiddle Violinist

Author:Leonard Bernstein

“If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.”

“I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.”

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Author:Ellen Barkin

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

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Author:George Duke

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