Cello Music Quotes

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

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

If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try and expand my vocabulary and bring that different kind of music to my audience.

I think that I make chords when I paint, so I think you would be listening to the cello. It's deep, and it's resonant. A lot of people have compared me to Brahms - that slightly melancholic sensuality that's highly structured. Well, that describes my work right there.

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

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.

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.

I'm a sucker for emotionally exploitative cello.

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.

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

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 if you play an open string, you feel it.