Quotes by Violinists

Don't move! I want to forget you just the way you are.
Henny Youngman
I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.
Henny Youngman
I wanted to become an atheist but I gave it up. They have no holidays.
Henny Youngman
I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions.
Henny Youngman
My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.
Henny Youngman
I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.
Henny Youngman
I wanted to become an atheist but I gave it up. They have no holidays.
Henny Youngman
I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions.
Henny Youngman
My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.
Henny Youngman
Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.
Itzhak Perlman
Remember that happiness is a way of travel not a destination.
Roy Goodman
I wanted to become an atheist but I gave it up. They have no holidays.
Henny Youngman
I wish everybody would go back into the closet.
Josefa Heifetz
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Henny Youngman
You can't buy love but you can pay heavily for it.
Henny Youngman
We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse our gestures our digestive tracts the lunar and seasonal cycles.
Yehudi Menuhin
To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others." These harsh words pierced me to the core.
Shinichi Suzuki
Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years
Yehudi Menuhin
As I have said before, I had no illusions about my performing ability. But I did not know that my despair was brought about not because I had no talent but because I did not know how to develop it.
Shinichi Suzuki
I ask no paradise on high, With cares on earth oppressed,The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest.
Solomon Northup
Strange as it may seem, within plain sight of this same house, looking down from its commanding height upon it, was the Capitol. The voices of patriotic representatives boasting of freedom and equality, and the rattling of the poor slave's chains, almost commingled. A slave pen within the very shadow of the Capitol!
Solomon Northup
No credit--no debt. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.
Solomon Northup
...So we passed, handcuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington, through the Captial of a nation, whose theory of government, we are told, rests on the foundation of man's inalienable right to life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness! Hail! Columbia, happy land, indeed!
Solomon Northup
If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.
Shinichi Suzuki
There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be reckoning yet ... it may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a coming as sure as the Lord is just
Solomon Northup
There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be a reckoning yet. . . there's a day coming that will burn as an oven. It may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a coming as sure as the Lord is just.
Solomon Northup
First character, then ability.
Shinichi Suzuki
The law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon, it lies. . . Is everything right because the law allows it? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave?
Solomon Northup
Most of the time, we try to tell ourselves "I'm confident" or "I'm doing well." But then, in a moment alone at home, you feel how close you are to some kind of abyss.
Christian Tetzlaff
The influence of the iniquitous system necessarily fosters an unfeeling and cruel spirit, even in the bosoms of those who, among their equals, are regarded as humane and generous.
Solomon Northup
It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him. Taught from earliest childhood, by all that he sees and hears that the rod is for the slave's back, he will not be apt to change his opinions in maturer years.
Solomon Northup
This was the book I read over and over. I really felt so in tune with them- I knew all the dates of their lives, what they had been doing, whre they had been. They were always my heroes, creating something fantastic against all odds, and against their real life.
Christian Tetzlaff
This has been my vocation to make music of what remains.
Itzhak Perlman
I played with children so that I could learn from them.
Shinichi Suzuki
Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?
Nigel Kennedy
The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments
Charles-Auguste de Beriot
Achieving your goal is greatExceeding your goal is exceptionalExceeding your goal and teaching others is Leadership
Joseph Swenson
There Comes the Strangest MomentThere comes the strangest moment in your life,when everything you thought before breaks free--what you relied upon, as ground-rule and as ritelooks upside down from how it used to be.Skin's gone pale, your brain is shedding cells;you question every tenet you set down;obedient thoughts have turned to infidelsand every verb desires to be a noun.I want--my want. I love--my love. I'll staywith you. I thought transitions were the best,but I want what's here to never go away.I'll make my peace, my bed, and kiss this breast…Your heart's in retrograde. You simply have no choice.Things people told you turn out to be true.You have to hold that body, hear that voice.You'd have sworn no one knew you more than you.How many people thought you'd never change?But here you have. It's beautiful. It's strange.
Kate Light
When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. -Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist (1906-1998)
Henny Youngman
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
Henny Youngman
Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization.
Yehudi Menuhin
At such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In prosperity, and whenever there is nothing to injure or make him afraid, he remembers Him not, and is ready to defy Him; but place him in the midst of dangers, cut him off from human aid, let the grave open before him, then it is, in the time of his tribulation, that the scoffer and unbelieving man turns to God for help, feeling there is no other hope, or refuge, or safety, save in his protecting arm.
Solomon Northup