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 was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin but one of the twins died and the other has eaten the fiddle so all is peace.

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

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

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.

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced like the violin.

A table a chair a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?