"And the reason I am writing this on……" — Billy Collins
"And the reason I am writing this on the back of a manila envelope now that they have left the train together is to tell you that when she turned to lift the large, delicate cello onto the overhead rack, I saw him looking up at her and what she was doing the way the eyes of saints are painted when they are looking up at God when he is doing something remarkable, something that identifies him as God."
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57 Quotes by Billy Collins
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More Cello Quotes
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I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
— Roger Bannister
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The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the…
— Ritchie Blackmore
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It is an attention-getter. I mean, its hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.
— Lori Singer
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Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way…
— Eicca Toppinen
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No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
— Elizabeth Moon
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When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice -…
— Mstislav Rostropovich
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Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall…
— John Berger
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I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.
— Maya Beiser
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The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.
— Pablo Casals
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Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of…
— Ann Patchett
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Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric…
— Andres Segovia
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