Quotes About The Double Bass

#1. The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the violin. It has the perfect shape, and its sound is the closest to the human voice.

Luka Sulic

#2. It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#3. In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it

Paul Fournel

#4. It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#5. A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

Irvin S. Cobb

#6. It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

Alvin Lee

#7. No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

Edward Bellamy

#8. It's nice not to have to live a double life.

Lance Bass

#9. Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.

Dogen

#10. I think a double bass for me would be too much effort. But the cello, you're really engaged and the sound is kind of right here. So, it feels like being merged, married to an instrument.

Tod Machover

#11. In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

Oscar Wilde

#12. With infinite wisdom and care your life is constantly sustained because Nature flows through you.

Michael J. Cohen

#13. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loath and despise the groups they identify or belong to.

George Carlin

#14. THE "depression" was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives every one a new opportunity.

Napoleon Hill

#15. In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign on Russia, we can already see, after six months of fighting, that he has made one of the outstanding blunders in history.

Winston Churchill

#16. Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.

G. Gordon Liddy

#17. I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.

Bat For Lashes

#18. There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#19. For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that.

Devon Sawa

#20. Just going outside put me at risk of winding up dead or captured. If I let that daunt me, I'd never do anything.

Samantha Shannon