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1 " I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within. "
― Gustave Flaubert
2 " When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. -Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist (1906-1998) "
3 " A violinist fiddled.With strings resined for winter.Summer's light splintered. "
― H.S. Crow
4 " Hence the detail which interests me is not, or at least is not strictly intentional, and probably must not be so; it occurs in the field of the photographed thing like a supplement that is at once inevitable and delightful; it does not necessarily attest to the photographer's art; it says only that the photographer was there, or else, still more simply, that he could not (i)not(i) photograph the partial object at the same time as the total object (how could Kerész have 'separated' the dirt road from the violinist walking on it?). The Photographer's 'second sight' does not consist in 'seeing' but in being there. And above all, imitating Orpheus, he must not turn back to look at what he is leading — what hi is giving to me! "
― Roland Barthes , Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
5 " If your mom asks you to do the dishes, do not pull out your pirate attitude. But if someone tells you you're not good enough, says your dreams are too lofty, or claims there is no room in showbiz for a dancing violinist - well then, by all means, pull out your eye patch, my friend, and take to the high seas. "
6 " The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within. "
7 " Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty. "
