“[Her husband, violinist Sanford Allen, rehearses Bach on his Stradivarius next door, for a recital upstate, where they have a country house. They married in 1969, after meeting when she was a guide at the Lincoln Center, and he the first African-American to join the New York Philharmonic.] He asked me to lunch, then sent a huge bunch of roses to me in London, ... I was only supporting actress. Others thought the lead, Felicity Kendal, should have won.”
Ismail Merchant
“For hockey players, the ice is their grand piano, their Stradivarius.”
Jim Lites
“Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.”
Jim Bishop
“It has a rich, dark sound as opposed to a Stradivarius, which is very bright.”
Evan Price
“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
“The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.”
Yehudi Menuhin
“The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency-half tiger, half poet.”
