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Letter "V" » violins
«Every single one of us can do things that no one else 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.»
«If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.»
Author: Robert A. Schumann
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
ensemble, musician, proper, The Violin, violin, violins
«Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring»
Author: S. J. Perelman
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
bedspring, distant, moan, moaning, moans, The Violin, triumphant, twang, twanged, twangs, violin, violins
«I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.»
Author: Tommy Cooper
| About:
Music,
Painting
| Keywords:
inherited, lousy, painter, Rembrandt, The Violin, turned out, unfortunately, violin, violins
«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.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
absurd, one-woman, One Piece, piece of music, several, The Violin, violinist, violins
«Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.»
«A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
bowl, bowled, chair, Chairing, fruit, table, The Chair, The Chairs, The Violin, violin, violins
«'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio»
«If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Music,
Thought
| Keywords:
Greek, Human thought, instruments, musical, musical instrument, musical instruments, The Violin, violin, violins
«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.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Art,
Music
| Keywords:
chord, chords, draw, drawing power, drawn-out, draw out, harmonies, musician, sounds, The Chords, The Violin, violin, violins
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