“if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.”

“the evolution of sense, in a sense, is the evolution of non sense”

“There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm...”

“The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?”

“Gentle souls!You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently.But can you turn yourselves inside out, like meAnd become just two lips entirely?”

“Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.”

“Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.”