Quotes About Playing Cello

#1. 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

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

Joshua Roman

#3. Wealth is thoughts, not things.

Robert G. Allen

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

Eric Siblin

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Four days ago, I realized that being alone was better than having his sorry ass company making me miserable every fucking day. Four days ago, I realized that being alone was better than living every day lonely with him.

Jessica N. Watkins

#8. The sound of boots stomping rhythms out of the dust. The sounds of happy squeals and laughter when people spin out, nearly dizzy from joy. The sound of a scratchy voice, a thumping guitar, a plucky violin. That's what pure joy sounds like.

Natalie Lloyd

#9. I stand stark naked in front of the mirror and gaze directly into my own eyes. I utter 'Good morning, handsome' and my lips quiver as I stare at myown body. I don't break eye contact until I blow my load. Not once do I actually touch myself.

Zach Braff

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. I would argue 'tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories. That is why we find that having lived them once, we never can recapture them.

Susanna Kearsley

#14. The People, when they start to applaud you and support, that means a lot

Alexei Yagudin

#15. What other thing, Eve?"
"I love you. Sometimes it makes my stomach hurt, but I kind of like it. Tired now, come to bed. Love you.

J.D. Robb

#16. 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

#17. Nature, take my breath with you; renew it with the wild breeze and fill my being up with so much soul, ego learns to fade away.

Nikki Rowe

#18. If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now.

Stephenie Meyer

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

Luka Sulic

#20. Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

Bill Hader

#21. Doctoring sick calves becomes my sole work. I don't even notice when or where the new ones were born. My days and nights are lived in the herd, and an intimacy blossoms as it does when one attends any gravely ill being, after talk becomes impossible or unnecessary to exchange.

Gretel Ehrlich

#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. For the moral basis, it is obvious that man's ethical responsibility varies with his knowledge of consequences

G.K. Chesterton

#24. For investors who do want to speculate in high-yield bonds, one alternative may be a junk bond mutual fund, which can offer investors the relative safety of diversification.

Alex Berenson

#25. Diplomacy was a long game.

H.W. Brands

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

Ann Patchett

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

Richard Dawkins

#28. Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

Kara Swisher