I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I`ve always really enjoyed music. I haven`t played much the last four years because I`ve been traveling around, so when I got his role (Neal in Uptown Girls (2003)), I had to start playing the guitar again.
- Jesse SpencerLove is not love, without a violin playing goat.
- Julia RobertsHappiness isn`t happiness unless there`s a violin-playing goat.
- Julia RobertsAn actor is supposed to be a sensitive intrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everyone jumped on his violin?
- Marilyn MonroeI played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
- Adam JonesI played violin all the way up through my freshman year in high school, then I played a stand-up bass for three years in an orchestra.
- Adam JonesFundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can`t become a virtuoso in both.
- Ethel BarrymoreI am playing the violin, that`s all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
- Itzhak PerlmanAnother thing that I don`t like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don`t pick up a violin at all.
- Itzhak PerlmanYou want to hear the violin burp. The violin can even sound like a monster. Isn`t that cool?
- Mark WoodMichelle is like a violin, a finely turned instrument. Fencing is a combat sport and she is so powerful.
- Michael MorganThe difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
- Victor BorgeAs a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark.
- Peggy FlemingI 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 OberstThere was one thing Beethoven didn`t do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn`t improvising.
- Wynton MarsalisWhen I was five I had violin lessons.
- Randy BachmanI would go on the bus by myself; I couldn`t even read with my violin under my arm, but it was a learning experience and I ultimately persevered.
- Randy BachmanLove is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it`s the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
- S.J. PerelmanI`m playing the Shostakovich One (Violin Concerto No. 1), and we`re recording it live, ... The work is so much fun, it`s a monster.
- Sarah ChangLife is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- Adrian EdmonsonNo one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it.
- Alice Caldwell RiceHappiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
- Alissa JohnsonI tried to learn the violin for a while.
- Amy GovertI 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 BonaparteLife is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- Samuel ButlerThe majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
- Honore de Balzac