Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emily Watson

I had to learn to play the cello to concert standard.

Michael Christie

In celebrating Shostakovich, it's difficult to decide which works not to do. I've decided on two concertos ? the one for cello that Giora conducts and the First Piano Concerto.

Alexandre Bouzlov

Oh, the cello comes in different sizes. I started with a smaller cello. But once I started playing, my teacher noticed that I had the hands for it. I also loved it. I couldn't stop playing.

Beverly Cleary

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.

Joshua Roman

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.

Steve Stone

She was some sort of queen of something. I don't know. She probably won a lot of contests. I remember she played the cello particularly well.

Todd Stephenson

I think this has to be the first time in the history of spring training a cello has been hit.

Dev Hynes

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

Luka Sulic

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.

Ji-Hae Park

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

Herbie Hancock

I was a jazz purist at the time, I had tunnel vision about jazz and classical music,

Joshua Bell

It's interesting about classical music that the more you hear something, the more you get to know a piece, the better and better it gets, period, which is just an interesting thing on it.

Lawrence M. Krauss

When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in my opinion, sterile.

Lola Kirke

We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit themselves to classical arts should be exempt from that.

Questlove

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

Frances McDormand

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

Birdy

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

Marsha Watson

Our curriculum has become much more cafeteria-like. In classical times, education was regarded as generally rhetorical. Rhetoric is the unifying force. This is a return to that synthesis of rhetoric and discipline knowledge.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Martina McBride

I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.

Joe Thomas

I was a little nervous at first. I never played reggae music in my life.

Kelli O'Hara

The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

King Krule

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

Yoko Ono

I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

Scot Bunnell

Harrison is playing really well and to go over there and win will be a challenge.

Thomas Muster

I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.

Jimmy Newman

When he's not playing polo or sleeping, he is concentrating on getting well-mounted and staying well-mounted.

Tony Bethel

When he (Simmons) is playing at his best, we win.

Brad Wilkerson

We've got to realize what we're playing for. Now's the time to want it.

Bill Guerin

We've got to keep playing for our lives.

Jeremy Trueblood

I thought we had a better team this year. But that was before we started playing the game, I guess. But they were a better team than they were two years ago -- a lot better.

Ryan Ghere

I thought that made them start playing harder.

Jimmy Williams

I think we like playing on the road sometimes more than playing at home.

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Rep. Baxley

I want to tell you something about accountability: It's hard. It hurts. If you're going to do the right thing, it's not always going to be the popular thing.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Shigeki Maruyama

The LPGA is very popular in Japan, ... She will be a big star.

Karen Bell

It's just not as popular as is used to be.

Tina Kuckkahn

It's the most popular place for student activities.

Nicholas Hytner

Even in rehearsals, I didn't realize it would be as popular as it proved. After I read it, I said: 'It's brilliant, but it's quite esoteric.' We scheduled 70 or 80 performances.

David Dreier

We know it may not be the single most popular thing, but it's the right thing to do.

Michael Moore

You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

John Maynard Keynes

Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory