Bow Technique Quotes

Violinists' hands aren't the prettiest because of our nails and what our hands have to go through.

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.

If the orchestra's not enjoying itself, the concerto will not succeed, with the players confined to using half an inch of bow.

A cello can sound like so many instruments, but it's only one, you know, like a guitar; it has percussive qualities. It can sing like the violin, you know, like a voice.

I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.'

I tried to learn the violin for a while.