John C. Reilly

You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.

American Actor

Lindsey Stirling

I played the violin my whole life. I wanted to play from the time I was just a little kid, and I've always loved dance as well. I wanted to make people smile. I wanted to add an extra energy to my playing and make it visual and make it unique and fun.

American Musician

Hilary Hahn

Most kids are very seriously interested in something - friends, math, shopping, sports. For me it happened to be music and the violin. I had the chance to pursue it without having it get in the way of my life.

Jimmy Chin

I grew up studying martial arts, playing violin, swimming competitively, so I already had athletic focus, discipline and training. When I brought that to climbing, I became passionate.

American Athlete

Freya Ridings

I realised, however, that you can't sing when you're playing the violin - or at least I can't - and as that aspect of performing is important to me I shifted to the piano.

English Musician

Jane Chen

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

American Businesswoman

Taron Egerton

I don't want to start getting my little violin out, but travelling across the world constantly and staying in hotels is tough, man.

English Actor

Evelyn Glennie

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

Scottish Musician

Paul Desmond

I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

Samuel Butler

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

British Poet

The violin is often associated with classical music and orchestras, symbolizing refinement and sophistication.

Cultural Icon

Despite its classical roots, violins are also integral in folk, jazz, and even rock music.

Multiple Genres

The violin is considered a challenging instrument to master, with a steep learning curve.

Skill Level

A violin 'bridge' supports the strings and transmits their vibrations to the body of the instrument.

Technical Component

The wood and build of the violin affect the resonance and quality of the sound it produces.

Sound Quality

Regular maintenance, including replacing the bridge, is necessary to preserve the violin's sound.

Maintenance

 and she had tears streaming down her face, and she had a palsy, she was shaking, and she had this gorgeous smile, and she said that she had never heard classical music before, she didn't think she was going to like it, she had never heard a violin before, but that hearing this music was like hearing the sunshine,

Robert Gupta: Between...

 would such expressive instrumental program music, as it was known, become popular. By then, larger, more varied ensembles were the rule with woodwinds, brass, and percussion to help tell the tale. But Vivaldi pulled it off with just one violin, strings, and a harpsichord.

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 I'll line the bottom with old notebook pages. Inside it, I will place a mockingbird for -- short explanation, hippie parents. What does a violin have to do with technology? Where in the world is this world heading? On one end, gold bars --

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 I'd like to share with you a little bit of me playing my life. I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair. The violin, which meant everything to me,

The violin, and my dark...

 toy I imagine a world where air power never evolved and tanks did getting bigger and bigger eventually any of like fortresses walking over the battlefield guns point in all directions I guess a toy with a violin theme is not the best

How I made the ultimate...

 the feathers of their wings deep in an ambient cloud forest this male club winged manikin is courting females Kimberley Bostwick at Cornell set out to prove that the bird was using its wing feathers to create its violin like sound

Bird Feathers "Sing" PIPE...

 And I was afraid, not for myself, but I was afraid that I was going to lose him, that he was going to sink into one of his states, and that I would ruin his relationship with the violin if I started talking about scales

Robert Gupta: Music is...

 that may have looked violin but the female can always let go of the branch and fly off if she's had enough

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 What changed? Same music, on the same violin, played with the same passion and by the same man.

What Aristotle and...

 I always say that the violin helps save his life for one week he was fully

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