Cello Quotes

57 quotes by 39 authors

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college. — Lev Grossman
There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be,… — Yo-Yo Ma
I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played… — James Taylor
I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful… — Sonya Hartnett
On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat… — Simone de Beauvoir
It's like the piano and the cello are being poured into my body, the same way the IV and blood transfusions are. And the memories… — Gayle Forman
I want you to play me like a cello. — Gayle Forman
And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It… — Gayle Forman
Mia and I had been together for more than two years, and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind… — Gayle Forman
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin,… — David Mitchell
How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As… — Pablo Casals
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… — Billy Collins
I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try… — Maya Beiser
I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a… — Maya Beiser
I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the… — Ty Simpkins
I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is… — Alexis Dziena
I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that. — Steven Price
I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar… — Beverly Cleary
I record cello Etudes that are fewer than four minutes long and post them on YouTube. How can one execute fully-formed ideas with utmost perfection,… — Joshua Roman
I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of… — Karen DeCrow

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