“'Sweet Georgia Brown' was the first tune that I heard. Venuti came in playing and his attack on the violin was such a powerful sound. ... It was the first jazz on the violin that I heard and it was like, oh my God, what have I been missing.”
Aaron Weinstein
“During the event we're going to have somebody up there playing the violin.”
Carolyn Jennings
“No, I'm not leaving the electric violin to Vanessa Mae. I'm still playing quite a lot of electric stuff. But only when there is a need for it. I like rocking out. And the electric violin is useful for many other things. It's useful for really good effects and it's also great for rocking out, with the drums and the bass, get into really heavy stuff. At the moment I'm not really doing any projects involving that thing.”
Nigel Kennedy
“The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.”
Victor Borge
“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
“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
