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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
"Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair."— Alan Watts
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Meaning of this quote
Reducing a violin performance to its materials produces a deliberately absurd description that leaves out the music.
Key takeaway:
Be cautious when a technically narrow description misses the experience as a whole.
Origin of the quote
What Is Tao?
Who actually said this?
Work identified in a secondary quotation list; the reduction to materials is rhetorical rather than a complete description of violin making.
