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«A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin»
Author: Edmond de Goncourt | Keywords: violin
«Fundamentally 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.»
«A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.»
Author: Josephine Baker | Keywords: palette, violin, violinist
«If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.»
«I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.»
«CREMONA, n. A high-priced violin made in Connecticut.»
«A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.»
«It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin - not sounding like them, but 'playing' the voice like those instruments»
«If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought»
«An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everyone jumped on his violin?»

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