The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. —Victor Borge

No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it. —Jim Fiebig

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. —Samuel Butler

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

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? —Albert Einstein

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie. —Conor Oberst

We do NOT tolerate violins at the Fiddle Hangout. We strive toward a world that is free from violins. We should all do our part to stamp out violins! 

Paul (wormbower)

"All the fiddle tunes are easy once ya learn em."... Howe Teague

"Fiddle-dee-dee!" - Scarlett O'Hara

"I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet."  Nicolo Paganini.

"You paid for the whole bow, you will use the whole bow."  Henry Meyer of the LaSalle String Quartet.

"The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper."  Pablo Casals.

"What is best in music is not to be found in the notes."  Gustav Mahler.

I took these from the Johnson Strings Catalogue.

don,t go to the fiddle faddle motel i heard its a (Viloin )

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Originally posted by notlwonk

We do NOT tolerate violins at the Fiddle Hangout.

 

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  Says who?????????

When just a lad JP Fraley's father told him, "If you are going to use that little of the bow, I should give you a hacksaw."

The late Bobby Diamond had a good one for fiddle tunes; "All fiddle tunes are exactly a like, except each one is a little different."

Lots & lots of great ones at <gasp> The Violinist: http://www.violinist.com/discussion/response.cfm?ID=7849 

Nothing good ever comes of violins. 

​Martin Luther

What is a violin and what is its purpose?

"There are only two fiddle tunes; the one you're playing and the one you aren't."

Every time I go to a party violins break out.  

(me)