Violin Family Instruments

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

    “Carry hate
    In front of you and harmony behind.
    Be deaf to music and to beauty blind.
    Win war. Rise bloody, maybe not too late
    For having first to civilize a space
    Wherein to play your violin with grace.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession. It comes only by the grace of God. It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker. You must be born into the family of the Walkers. Ambulator nascitur, non fit.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “But when to mischiefmortals bend their will,
    How soon they find fit instruments of ill!”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)