The Magic Bow (1946)

Stewart Granger: Nicolò Paganini

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• Nicolo Paganini : Forgive me, I'm in a bad temper.

  Jeanne de Vermond : Perhaps I could cure it.

  Nicolo Paganini , Jeanne de Vermond : I believe you could.

• Nicolo Paganini : Nicolo Paganini play in the street?

  Jeanne de Vermond : Oh, at the time there would be nobody about to hear you.

  Nicolo Paganini : No one to hear me? Musicians play to be heard, Mademoiselle.

• Nicolo Paganini : [to Count de Vemond, for whom Paganini is to play outside his jail on the street]  The name is Paganini, jailbird.

• Nicolo Paganini : With the violin, I can talk to the world... by God's will.

• Luigi Germi : Nicolo, what's the matter? You find the laurels harder to gain than you imagined?

  Nicolo Paganini : Germi, I'm a fool.

  Luigi Germi : Good, it takes most of us a lifetime to realize that.

• Nicolo Paganini : The admiration of fools is an insult.

• Luigi Germi : Nicolo, do you know anything about dueling.

  Nicolo Paganini : No, do you?

  Luigi Germi : No.

• Nicolo Paganini : Germi, you're a terrible liar.

  Luigi Germi : Stop being sentimental.

• Jeanne de Vermond : Tell me, do all people who play the violin divinely have such bad tempers?

  Nicolo Paganini : Who else do you know who plays the violin divinely as I do?

  Jeanne de Vermond : Nobody, darling. Nobody.

• Nicolo Paganini : Your holiness, with your permission I should now like to play a piece of music which came to me when I needed a prayer, and which is especially near to my heart.

  Pope Leo : Play my son. Your prayer may just be answered.