Beautiful Quote by Okkyung Lee

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

I always wanted to play cello, but in school, when I said that, my friend laughed at me, and she was doing violin so,…

— Monica Barbaro

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

Yeah, uh, no, I play the cello. I played it, when, a lot when I was younger and it's one of those such a…

— Charlotte Hope

I'm a sucker for emotionally exploitative cello.

— John Tiffany

The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.

— Irene Thomas

I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

— Julia Kent

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

— Eberhard Weber

I played cello on my early recordings, but that doesn't mean I'm a cellist, you know?

— Julia Holter

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned…

— Ritchie Blackmore

It started when I was eight years old. I first heard the cello on the radio, and I loved the sound. It was such…

— Stjepan Hauser

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

— Ritchie Blackmore