I don't want to discredit people's opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where you have to learn tons of chords, that's much more difficult.
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.
Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.
If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.
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.
Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?
I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.
I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.
People tend to eat through the cello. They tend to take out the things that make it beautifully cello-y sometimes.
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.
I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big.
There's that thing that can happen to you when you meet somebody and you don't consider them extraordinary at all and then they do something like play the cello or write amazing poetry or sing and suddenly you look at them completely differently.
Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again.
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.
I want you to play me like a cello.
If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.
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.
I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.
It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.
No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
