#violin

It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#ending #sad #violin #death

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cook #dinner #insult #music #violinist

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#happiness #violin #food

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. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#beauty #bow #composer #creation #lie

Furthermore--though it was quite irrelevant now--he had no idea his killer, Kazuo Kiriyama, had, in his mansion that was much larger than Toshinori's home in Shiroiwa-cho, mastered the violin at a level far superior to Toshinori's a long time ago--and then tossed his violin into the trash. ↗

— Koushun Takami

#kazuo #violin #funny

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#play

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#first #i #line #orchestra #people

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. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#aside #ballerina #being #build #craft

Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#being #conductor #directing #just #orchestra

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#drew #i #instrument #mastering #me