“Get the bow going!
Let it scream to me:
Violin! Violin! Violin!”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)
“To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.”
Ward No. 6, ch. 7 (1892)
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