Cello Playing Quotes

#1. It has endless possibilities, and but what we do with our arrangements, we move the borders of cello playing and discover new ways of new techniques of cello playing.

Luka Sulic

#2. I guess I'm interested in pushing the boundaries of the cello without giving up on the idea of playing the cello, if that makes any sense. I have no real interest in putting the cello through different effects to make it sound like a guitar or other instruments.

Okkyung Lee

#3. Playing the cello did feel nicely neolithic, or at least a civilized way to process the primitive.

Eric Siblin

#4. It is not the men who are in command of the bulldozers. It is the bulldozer who invented men, and then, since they failed to interest it, obliterated them with its muscular arm.

Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

#5. The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound (pitch and intensity) depends on the manner in which you hold and apply the bow. The same goes for the gesture of applying paint to a surface.

Stephen Beal

#6. Tantric Zen is a state of mind

Frederick Lenz

#7. We tune differently, and we use some tricks. There's just the two of us for much of a concert, so we want a big sound. We do use some guitar effects, distortion and delay. Playing cello with distortion sounds so good.

Luka Sulic

#8. When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn't carry on with it, which I regret.

Emilia Fox

#9. C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts.

Grady Booch

#10. Soon-to-be divorced Stew Harbinger to get this one up to his room. Stew's hand slid up her inner thigh - not too long a wait. His cell vibrated again. Another message from Trav. Dammit. Trav knew

Kylie Gilmore

#11. I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

Ozzy Osbourne

#12. But in my family, playing music was still more important than the type of music you played, so when after a few months it became clear that my love for the cello was no passing crush, my parents rented me one so I could practice at home. Rusty scales and triads

Gayle Forman

#13. I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way, including 'Lost' and 'The Wire.' As a kid, I'd read books while playing.

Joshua Roman

#14. Joking and laughing as they headed off to their new life

Markee Anderson

#15. John [Kricfalusi] is so arrogant. He thinks he's me!

Ralph Bakshi

#16. People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

Graham Greene

#17. The easiest way to steal a man's wallet is to tell him you're going to steal his watch. You take his attention and direct it where you want it to go.

Leigh Bardugo

#18. What made him most anxious, he told me, was not the big questions - the mercilessness of fate, the possibility of heaven. He was too exhausted, he said, to wrestle with those. But he'd become impatient with the way people wasted their lives, squandered their chances like paychecks.

Wally Lamb

#19. The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.

Edmund White

#20. Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes.

Luka Sulic

#21. On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

Bobby Jindal

#22. If I were to run around the world playing just the cello concertos - and believe me, I love playing them - I would be counting my entire repertoire from year to year on my two hands

David Finckel

#23. I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.

Michel De Montaigne

#24. Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

Ann Patchett

#25. I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background.

Richard Dawkins

#26. I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.

Joshua Roman