Top 123 Cello Quotes & Sayings

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

I want you to play me like a cello.

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.

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

I'm a sucker for emotionally exploitative cello.

I played tennis. My older brother, Joseph, was a cello player, and I played the cello, but he was better than me at the cello, and he was also a better tennis player than me, so I was always like, 'I wish there was something that only I did!'

If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.

If we just stick to one kind of music, our creativity is limited. We wanted to extend the audience for the cello, especially the younger people, and to show them how cool and how powerful and how diverse the cello can be.

I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.

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

I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.

I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got really involved with rock music when I was a teenager. I wired up my cello.

It is an attention-getter. I mean, its hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.

I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.

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

I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future husband and I danced to it so many Saturday nights when we were in college.

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

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

I've spent some time in Edinburgh before. I used to go up there to busk and actually went to the Fringe a few times as a teenager with my cello.

We were never happy with the way cello was recorded, and we wanted to experiment in the studio to make the cello rock as much as possible. On the second album, we had great help from Bob Ezrin, who helped us develop our sound even more.

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

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

The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.

I keep saying if I ever get a good amount of quiet time that I want to learn to play cello. It's a very warm instrument. The tone of the cello and the movement - I don't know what is; I love it so much.

It started when I was eight years old. I first heard the cello on the radio, and I loved the sound. It was such a magical, beautiful sound. I dedicated my entire childhood to cello, practising like crazy.

I started to play noise on my cello because I felt a deep personal connection to it. I mean, I still love all the beautiful sounds of the cello as much as anybody but it's only when I play certain sounds I know that the cello really presents who I am; not my emotions but who I am as a person.

The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.

We knew we wanted to have our own tone for the show. And then the big instrument that actually we came up with was the cello. It has a big range. It can play really low. It can play high. And it has a dark sound, and 'Game Of Thrones' is obviously - it's a dark show, and the cello became the featured instrument.

I love Bach cello suites, I love punk music, I love old blues, negro spiritual quartets, Muddy Waters' 'You Need Love.' There is a simplicity but also a bite that connects all that music, from the growl in the cello to the timbre in Muddy's voice.

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 beautiful instrument. It's kind of the few things I've kept up.

The cello looks like a woman to me. And, you know, the curves. And so I am in a way, and it's funny to admit this, I am sexually attracted to the cello, the curves really get me. So as I watched him play, you know, Yo Yo Ma is sort of making love to a beautiful woman.

When I die, I'd like to come back as a cello.

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again.

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

I would have never thought to put cello and beatboxing together. But I did, and it was extremely hard work to make it cohesive and musical, but it worked.

It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

Singing is something that I have done all my life, but what I did on my first two records was to hide the vocals. They're there to thicken the web of the cello.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

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.

People tend to eat through the cello. They tend to take out the things that make it beautifully cello-y sometimes.

People don't think of cello as a rock instrument, really, and we want people to know all the possibilities that the cello can offer.

There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.

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

I play in tune like a cello player and use legitimate vibrato. There are no tricks; it's just all in the hands!

I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.

We wanted to make a powerful cello sound in order to show to the world the possibilities of the cello and to use it in a different way than the classical way they are used to. We wanted to play something exciting, something crazy, something to draw younger generations to this great instrument.

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

It is an attention-getter. I mean, it's hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.

I am a singer, first and foremost, but the medium happens to be the cello.

We are so excited to be touring and showing audiences the versatility of the cello.

I was the good girl. The straight A student, on the honour roll, part of the choir... I played the cello badly. I did plays.

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.

I love the name 'Stella McCartney.' It's a beautiful name the way it rolls off the tongue. A couple of years ago, I wrote a cello concerto and used that as the basis for the rhythmic and melodic structure of the main motif of the cello part.

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

I went to college to study the piano and cello.

I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from.