“If it hadn't been for her I wouldn't have been able to do it. She took apart the violin, piece by piece.”
Cynthia Davis
“The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.”
Victor Borge
“A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.”
Josephine Baker
“I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.”
Conor Oberst
“I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is broken, sad as a woman who is growing old.”
Jean Rhys
“CREMONA, n. A high-priced violin made in Connecticut.”
Ambrose Bierce
