Victor Borge Quotes

II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

The lute is tuned differently than the guitar and of course it has many more strings.

The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.

The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad.

I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

A cello can sound like so many instruments, but it's only one, you know, like a guitar; it has percussive qualities. It can sing like the violin, you know, like a voice.

The violin is basically made of a wood box and four main strings.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the violin. It has the perfect shape, and its sound is the closest to the human voice.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

I've got a EC3-35 Gibson, which is pretty cherished. I've got a vintage Reichenbacker 330 in fireglow, which is the other one I look after and don't let the kids touch.

Strings have been a part of my career and my albums since the very first day. 'Snowbird' had beautiful strings.

The lute I use has 10 courses and 19 strings, which is quite a lot of strings and a quite different fingerboard width from a classical guitar. I use a combination of flesh and nail when plucking the strings.

A violin neck is much smaller than the guitar's, so it's much easier to play wide intervals on one violin string. On the guitar, you really have to stretch to play them.

Piano feels soft. Violins and all different string instruments feel soft. Guitar, even electric guitar before you start adding distortion, that you can play soft.

[When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes. And others are just washboards.

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

Get a book, so you know where to put your fingers. Otherwise it would be tough to learn. Also you have to fight through getting callouses on your fingers because it hurts, you are pressing your fingers on metal strings, they will hurt at first until you start building up callouses.

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! I'm starting to learn guitar.

The violin - that most human of all instruments.

I don't want to discredit people's opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where you have to learn tons of chords, that's much more difficult.

FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.