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Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

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.

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down.

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

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

The violin sings.