(32 quotes found)
“[Ellis, who lives in France, recorded some of the violin loops at his house.] It was very different to making a normal record, ... There were no boundaries in that respect, and I enjoyed much more than I thought I would. The music had to be very flexible, and as a result it has a very improvised, loose feel. But that's fine. Beethoven and Mozart did not write with films in mind either.”
Warren Ellis
“Michelle is like a violin, a finely turned instrument. Fencing is a combat sport and she is so powerful.”
Michael Morgan
“The first violins have the most interesting part.”
John Coltrane
“I had to put down the violin. It was devastating. . . . But if it hadn't happened I never would have considered conducting. I went through a total career turnaround.”
Miriam Burns
“They gave you a string instrument - I got a violin. Gave it to me. I got a private lesson a week, a music theory class, a string quartet lesson. Then we all got together for the orchestra. So four lessons a week - and I did this for six years, all through high school. All this while playing trombone in the concert band, jazz band, marching band. And singing in the a cappella chorus and drama club. And on the side, I was in two rock bands, hack garage bands.”
John Carlin
“It got to a point where I had to get a hair-cut or a violin”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The Complete Paganini Caprices for Solo Violin is such a daunting feat that nobody does it, and we are going to have this concert here.”
Zuill Bailey
“People will pay a lot for violin lessons, but a small investment with Epicenter can make kids faster and stronger, ... Stronger and faster might mean a college scholarship.”
Chip Sigmon
“Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.”
Anne Dudley
“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.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
