"When I started learning the cello, I fell……" — Mstislav Rostropovich
"When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice."
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Mstislav Rostropovich
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21 Quotes by Mstislav Rostropovich
Mstislav Rostropovich has 21 quotes on this site.
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I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.
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Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the…
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I never studied, but I had the best teachers,
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You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.
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Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these…
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Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored…
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I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life.
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People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But…
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It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and…
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You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.
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Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he…
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I played with the best conductors of the world.
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More Cello Quotes
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one of 57 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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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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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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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
— Eberhard Weber
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