violinist

'I have no reason to doubt her; she's a professional violinist.

The famous violinist Joshua Bell once played in a DC metro station for nearly an hour.

I once had a heated discussion with a classical violinist about who the most known Dane was outside of Denmark.

Have a skilled violinist play the same note twice with the same articulation for the same duration under the same conditions.

As an orchestral violinist, my biggest pain point is that I can't mark bowings into one part and have them appear in the parts for everybody else in the section.

I'm not a violin player, but to me the allure of hearing a violinist play on a 300 year old violin isn't that it's the best sounding violin on the planet.

Any good violinist can tell you that after an instrument hasn't been played for a while, it takes a few months of playing -- the louder the better -- before it will start to "speak" properly.

Imagine a soloist violinist mentally rehearsing his performance for later that evening.

'You know that claiming to be a professional violinist is an appeal to authority rather than a logical argument, right?That said the study does seem to be massively misreported.

I'm sure you're working hard on demanding things, but a world-class violinist is probably doing something much, much harder than you are. Even if you don't respect violinists, surely you have to respect that an expert mathematician trying to make a new discovery is working on problems much harder than anyone in the corporate world.

Lots of good quotes in here, particularly:> It is not only the violin that shapes the violinist, we are all shaped by the tools we train ourselves to use, and in this respect programming languages have a devious influence: they shape our thinking habits.

Well, I did broadly define success as "able to cover your living expenses while saving some for later".As a former wanna be professional violinist, I definitely don't think becoming a billionaire is the only mark of success.