I think a double bass for me would be too much effort. But…

I started to play noise on my cello because I felt a deep personal connection to it. I mean, I still love all the…

— Okkyung Lee

The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the violin. It…

— Luka Sulic

We get so many kids telling us that they've taken up the violin or cello. It's really special, and it wasn't really our intention…

— Grace Chatto

I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got…

— Tod Machover

I love the cello, I love the physical sense of an instrument that's about the size of your body that vibrates enough that even…

— Tod Machover

In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it

— Paul Fournel

My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play…

— Fiona Shaw

Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the…

— Anton Chekhov

I was a bass guitarist first before I started playing double bass - and I only started playing it because my teacher said I'd…

— Ted Dwane

“If chocolate could sing, it would sound like the Double Bass.”

— Gary Karr

I could be just as happy playing a Beatles song as I am when I'm thrashing out the double bass stuff with Adrenaline Mob.

— Mike Portnoy

I always have trouble recording drums and double bass.

— Bonobo

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“He knew everything. He knew at least a thousand Hungarian folk songs, all the words and tunes, he could handle Gypsies, give them instructions…

— Dezső Kosztolányi

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

— Alvin Lee