#violin

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do. ↗

— Barbara Sher

#every #know #like #love #make

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger. ↗

— Andy Summers

#i #instance #playing #respond #sound

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music. ↗

— Barbara Sher

#make #music #used #violins

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#music #sherlock-holmes #violin #music

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

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

— Lemony Snicket

#play

I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#could #drums #every #everything #flute