Self Denial

An Admirer once asked Leonard Bernstein, celebrated orchestra conductor,
what was the hardest instrument to play. He replied without hesitation:
"Second fiddle. I can always get plenty of first violinists, but to find
one who plays second violin with as much enthusiasm or second French
horn or second flute, now that's a problem. And yet if no one plays
second, we have no harmony."

James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited, Tyndale, 1988, p. 450