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I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.


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ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?
ANDRES SEGOVIA No, I'm not leaving the electric violin to Vanessa Mae. I'm still playing quite a lot of electric st...
NIGEL KENNEDY I actually played violin on 'E.T.' I used to be a violinist.
DAVID NEWMAN I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.
KEITH JARRETT I could imagine that boats sailing in harbors will only use electric engines. And then once they are...
HENRIK FISKER An electric guitar is a gay version of an electric bass.
ELISA BERENGUEL I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales w...
EVA GREEN If you want to commit suicide you can use my razor; it's electric, but you can hang yourself with th...
HAYTHUM R. KHALID As I was being born my father claims that he was playing his fiddle/violin to soothe my mother and w...
FAIRUZA BALK I started in elementary school. I tried clarinet first since my mom had played it but I didn't like ...
ERIC VARGAS I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason no...
ITZHAK PERLMAN An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What i...
MARILYN MONROE An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What i...
MARILYN MONROE The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.
NICCOLO PAGANINI I don't own anything but my violin, and I'm sleeping on my manager's couch.
J. LOREN WINCE When I was five I had violin lessons.
RANDY BACHMAN I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger...
EUGENE CHADBOURNE What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
OLIVER HERFORD I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
PAUL DESMOND I wonder if I could make an electric bass.
LEO FENDER A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. ...
MARVIN MINSKY I just paid $500 for my electric bill!
CHARLOTTE CURRY An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour ...
DANIEL BARENBOIM I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United S...
ELON MUSK If it hadn't been for her I wouldn't have been able to do it. She took apart the violin, piece by pi...
CYNTHIA DAVIS To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression...
JOHANNES P. MULLER I do basically what a conductor does with a baton, except I also play along with the orchestra. So I...
JOSHUA BELL I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.
AMAR BOSE I tried to learn the violin for a while.
PETER WRIGHT If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin o...
HELEN KELLER I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
ZAC EFRON I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric lig...
CHUBBY CHECKER The violin sings.
JOSHUA BELL The problem with using an electric sharpener is that it's not controlled by hand.
BUDD SOLAEGUI My violin is called Kylie as she sounds great and is perfectly formed.
NIGEL KENNEDY It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and pi...
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
EDITH SITWELL I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
DAME EDITH SITWELL I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a pri...
GEORGE CLOONEY I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.
JOSHUA BELL I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!
BIRDY You want to hear the violin burp. The violin can even sound like a monster. Isn't that cool?
MARK WOOD I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
CLARENCE CLEMONS What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
ANONYMOUS What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
OLIVER HERFORD I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant.
PETER DINKLAGE Through him I could play the music I heard in my soul. I was the violin, he was the bow.
S. JAE-JONES I was so little inspired by violin instruction at the Guildhall School that I kept in the cloakroom ...
WILLIAM PRIMROSE if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car...
ELON MUSK Demi Eldar..., demi Eldar yang mereka bilang aku khianati..., aku akan mendapatkanmu lagi!!
K.A.Z. VIOLIN Ketika kau memiliki firasat buruk tentang kehilangan orang yang paling berharga, kau akan mencoba un...
K.A.Z. VIOLIN Di tempat paling dingin sekalipun... selalu ada cerita hangat,
K.A.Z. VIOLIN I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with...
JAMES BAY I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. ...
KATHERINE MOENNIG I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typ...
WOODY ALLEN I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became &#...
EMUN ELLIOTT Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.
JULIA ROBERTS Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have ...
ANDREW BIRD The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and viol...
ELLIOTT CARTER I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really likin...
RANDY BACHMAN It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing nega...
SYLVIA PLATH I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
ADAM JONES You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man t...
GIUSEPPE ZANGARA Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
LYDIA M CHILD Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
LYDIA M. CHILD As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark.
PEGGY FLEMING Sweet Georgia Brown' was the first tune that I heard. Venuti came in playing and his attack on the v...
AARON WEINSTEIN 'Sweet Georgia Brown' was the first tune that I heard. Venuti came in playing and his attack on the ...
AARON WEINSTEIN The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
HONORE DE BALZAC Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
JOHN LUBBOCK I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake ...
ELLEN HOLLMAN Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.
RICK RIORDAN Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
VANESSA MAE As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I ...
J. SMITH-CAMERON It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? ...
CAROLINE SHAW Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.
BECCA FITZPATRICK I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.
ELON MUSK My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' an...
BRENDON URIE …the violin — that most human of all instruments…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I think this adenovirus technology is like the electric car. We all know that sooner or later we wil...
ANDREA GAMBOTTO I said if they couldn't give me anything else to give me an electric pencil sharpener.
KAILEI HOGAN When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of th...
LAWRENCE WRIGHT Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE We use some draw knifes, where you can actually put the wooden block between your legs and you have ...
KEN HEIDE Batteries are a necessary part of hybrid electric-gasoline powered vehicles and someday, when the te...
DAN DOUGHTY As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electri...
JONATHAN DEMME She is one of the most sublime, profound artists in India as she brings years of playing on the viol...
KANNIKS KANNIKESWARAN My mouth is a fire escape.
The words coming out
don’t care that they are naked.
The...
ANDREA GIBSON There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software pro...
WANG LEEHOM I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to dr...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE [He] is one of those virtuoso guitar players. Sometimes I equate him to the flamenco Jimi Hendrix. Y...
WALLY INGRAM It got to a point where I had to get a hair-cut or a violin
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just play...
ANDREW BIRD Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. PERELMAN CREMONA, n. A high-priced violin made in Connecticut.
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