Forest Whitaker

My wife, Keisha, came home once, and I had these violinists playing for her, and I'd prepared dinner for her, and I write poems. She's pretty amazing, so I like to celebrate that. She's really taught me how to celebrate life; that's something I've learned.

American Actor

Gretchen Carlson

My parents raised me with a never-give-up attitude, telling me I could be anything I wanted to be. I was a serious violinist and a valedictorian of my high school class. I knew all about hard work.

American Journalist

David Ogden Stiers

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Ruggiero Ricci

Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you have to know these styles.

American Musician

Peter Dinklage

My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor.

J. J. Watt

The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinist, football player - has to be the best. Why not me?

American Athlete

Yehudi Menuhin

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

English Writer

Lorne Greene

In my youth I wanted to be a concert violinist.

Canadian Actor

Krzysztof Penderecki

Polish Composer

Used to describe someone's job involving playing the violin.

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Can indicate the player's skill level, from amateur to renowned.

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Violinists can play in various music genres, not just classical.

Genre Flexibility

 and making sure we don't get eaten drive deterministic behavioral responses to information in the world. And we get to see into this window, into their internal states and their biological experiences. It's really pretty cool. Now, stay with me for a moment -- I'm a violinist, not a singer.

Technology that knows...

 for the lights there you go you can combine it a symphony orchestra it's going to play a composition that they're from Kinshasa from Congo and they're going to play a composition written by the first violinist called Luba which is basically about the tranquility of the

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 A violinist, as we heard, who has done 10,000 hours of violin practice, some area that controls the movements of fingers in the brain changes a lot, increasing reinforcement of the synaptic connections. So can we do that with human qualities?

The habits of happiness...

 And we use the senior citizens, who are 25 percent of the population with wisdom that nobody wants anymore. So we bring them to school and we say, teach these kids whatever you really believe in. So we have violinists teaching math.

Ricardo Semler: Radical...

 problems with turkeys but I guess everybody does I formed some real friendships here with neighbors a guy across the street makes storage tanks guy had walked with the most as a violinist his wife works for the county

His House Survived a...

 was just indescribable, and it was a real eye-opening experience for me too, and it totally changed my perspective on life and set me free from the pressure of becoming a successful violinist.

The violin, and my dark...

 in his hometown, Barquisimeto. There, he grew as a violinist and as a conductor. He became the conductor of Venezuela's junior orchestras, and today conducts the world's greatest orchestras.

José Antonio Abreu: The...

 Yuk! Yuk! Yuk! A few years later, I heard a joke about the greatest violinist, Jascha Heifetz. After Mr. Heifetz's concert, a lady came over and complimented

Sirena Huang: An...

 It was an inspired way to attract listeners, and Vivaldi, considered one of the most electrifying violinists of the early 18th century,

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