Instruments Quote by Ritchie Blackmore Download Open image “The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.” — Ritchie Blackmore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Instruments Isolated Melancholy Miserable Music making
The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will. — Irene Thomas Copy Share Image
Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes. — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities. — Stjepan Hauser Copy Share Image
A cello can sound like so many instruments, but it's only one, you know, like a guitar; it has percussive qualities. It can sing… — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all. — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
The cello is such a versatile instrument. It can rock like the hardest rock guitar, and it can sing like the human voice. We… — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano. — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
We wanted to make a powerful cello sound in order to show to the world the possibilities of the cello and to use it… — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great… — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only. — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing. — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about… — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
I'm definitely not a guy that comes in the dressing room saying, "Hey, everybody, what a wonderful life." I'm usually brooding about something I… — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
Most guitar players get a name because the band that they're in has become popular. That doesn't mean that they're particularly good, whereas conversely,… — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I… — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
... Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one… — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline. — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life,… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image
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