Violin Quotes

“The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments”

“The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments”

“Furthermore--though it was quite irrelevant now--he had no idea his killer, Kazuo Kiriyama, had, in his mansion that was much larger than Toshinori's home in Shiroiwa-cho, mastered the violin at a level far superior to Toshinori's a long time ago--and then tossed his violin into the trash.”

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

“I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.”

“Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.”

“A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.”

“There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.”

“—the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.”

“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”

“Just as we can play beautiful music only when the strings on the violin are in proper tension, so we can grow only when we are stretched from what we are to what we can be. There is no growth without tension.”