Zitat des Tages über Geige / Violin:
I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.
Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of the foremost interpreters of Bach for the violin.
I had no interest or intention of ever writing music. I was a professional violinist in my 20s. I was obsessed with conducting, and I was conducting as much as I could, and I was studying as much as I could. I went to USC; I got an undergrad degree in violin and a master's degree in conducting.
It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.
Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.
Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
I do basically what a conductor does with a baton, except I also play along with the orchestra. So I have to juggle the roles of playing the concertmaster; sometimes I drop the violin and wave my arms.
The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.
I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
The violin is very beautiful. Some people relate it as the shape of a lady, but, whether you like it or not, it's been so for more than 400 years, unlike modern stuff that easily looks dated. But I think it's very personal and unique that, although each violin looks pretty similar, that no two violins sound the same.
Another 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.
I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.
Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.
My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.
I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
I tried to learn the violin for a while.
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
I actually played violin on 'E.T.' I used to be a violinist.
It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.
Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?
I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.
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.
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
Some songs are just going to be acoustic with just maybe some light background stuff going on and maybe violin or something like that. Or sax - I mean, I'm definitely having some sax. That's just what I love. It's going to be jazz-rock stuff. That's what I'm aiming for.
The violin sings.
When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.
When I was five I had violin lessons.
