I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.

I played the violin my whole life. I wanted to play from the time I was just a little kid, and I've always loved dance as well. I wanted to make people smile. I wanted to add an extra energy to my playing and make it visual and make it unique and fun.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

The same way that I practiced the violin, the same way that I practiced my dance moves, I decided that I was going to practice being positive and practice loving myself.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

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

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

When I started learning the violin, my choir teacher thought I could sing. But when I first got on stage, I froze!

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

My fourth birthday, I was given a violin, and my fifth birthday, a guitar. I didn't start to play until I saw Hendrix on TV. They showed him setting his guitar on fire and burning it for the Monterey Pop Festival.

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

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. -Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist (1906-1998)

To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore respect every musician in his proper place.

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin but one of the twins died and the other has eaten the fiddle so all is peace.

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

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.