The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows.
We are so not breaking out the violins and pity partying.
All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.
Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.
I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.
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.
You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.
While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.
Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
Walk my way and a thousand violins begin to play, or it might be the sound of your hello.
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests.
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
