Violin Practice Quotes

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.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

If I started something, I had to finish. Like with violin. I started when I was seven only because my best mate wanted to. I hated it and wanted to quit, but Dad made me continue, and I got to grade seven. My parents said I had to know the value of stuff and work for stuff.

For twelve years I studied and worked at them every day, and I was nearly 25 before I had the courage to play one of them in public. Before I did, no violinist or cellist had ever played a Suite in its entirety.

We had a normal childhood. I played baseball, and we played violin in orchestras three times a week. I learned more from that than anything else.

When I was five I had violin lessons.

I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.

I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.