I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason not to.

Kids would come up to me after concerts and give me drawings they've made of violins or, you know, landscapes with a violin floating in it or some sketch of a concert or a portrait of me.

I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.

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

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.

I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

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

My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.

The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.

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 always wanted to do a song with a violin; I always loved the sound of the instrument, especially for melodic stuff.

The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the violin. It has the perfect shape, and its sound is the closest to the human voice.

I come from a very musical family. My dad taught me to play guitar. I play violin and drums as well. Violin, I started in elementary school. Drums actually came when I was in a program called 'Rock Star,' which was really awesome. We were doing a song by the Ramones, so I thought, 'Why not play the drums?'

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

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.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

The violin didn't keep me from doing things I wanted to do.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.