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Quote by Victor Borge
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. – Victor Borge

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The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm – Leonard Bernstein

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. . . colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on the violin, great, calm, oscillating, splintered surgances . . . . Is this not form? – Giacomo Puccini

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Tis God gives skill, but not without mens hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivariuss violins without Antonio. – George Eliot

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There is as much difference between the stage and the film as between a piano and a violin. Normally you cant become a virtuoso in both. – Ethel Barrymore

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