Violin Family Instruments

Famous quotes containing the words violin, family and/or instruments:

“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“A family with the wrong members in control—that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)

“I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)