“Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.”
John Lubbock
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.”
Albert Einstein
“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
“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 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
