Cello Quotes
57 quotes by 39 authors
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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 guitar and just turned 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 that we handle our instruments.
— 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 - my 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 was opened. Rostropovich was playing…
— 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 inspiration?
— 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 singer?
— Andres Segovia
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
— Eberhard Weber
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My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the…
— Fiona Shaw
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The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.
— Pablo Casals
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My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring…
— Yo-Yo Ma
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The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different…
— Elliott Carter
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If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.
— Jeff VanderMeer
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Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now…
— Jamie Foxx
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I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.
— Evelyn Glennie
Who Wrote These Cello Quotes
39 authors contributed a total of 57 Cello Quotes, led by these top contributors: