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As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark. ↗

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.' ↗

— Alison Krauss

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My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#badly #bassist #brother #cello #double

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. ↗

— Ruggiero Ricci

#better #down #go #hear #him

Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of the foremost interpreters of Bach for the violin. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

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The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments ↗

— Charles-Auguste de Beriot

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A thousand violins cloy very rapidly without percussion. ↗

— John Fowles

#music

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #violin #music

When I was five I had violin lessons. ↗

— Randy Bachman

#had #i #lessons #violin

I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

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