Cellists Quotes

• The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

  Pablo Casals

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

  "Contemporary Hispanic Quotations" edited by Daniel E. Stanton, Edward F. Stanton, Greenwood Publishing Group, (p. 35), 2003.

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• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.

  Pablo Casals

  Love, Life, Country

  "Joys and Sorrows : Reflections‎ by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn". Book by Albert E. Kahn, 1974.

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• As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Soul, Feelings

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• The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

  Pablo Casals

  Children, Miracle, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Freddie [Highmore] is great in the movie [August Rush]. It comes out this Fall and I play a young cellist, a prodigy, who is touring and doing concerts. She's very young and has a one-night fling with an Irish rocker, played Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who is also a really talented musician.

  Keri Russell

  Fall, Night, August

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• What most interests me is human connection, whether it's on the street, in
  community, through music, storytelling, and shared experience. People tell me to be a rock cellist, make money, and give up on the activism so I can make more money.

  Ben Sollee

  Giving Up, Rocks, People

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• My whole family is in the arts some way or the other. My father was a cellist in a symphony outside Chicago that was a side-job, he was a scientist. My mother was a dancer in New York. She was next-door neighbors with Dorothy Loudon and they moved to New York together. Mom was a dancer in New York for several years before she got married. My sister was a classical pianist. And my brother was a partier. So it all just seemed to work.

  Jason Graae

  Mom, Mother, Brother

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• When I was done with high school, I knew that music was really important to me and I knew I didn't want to be a cellist, but I wasn't really sure if I wanted to be a composer, or think about - I was just interested in the ideas behind music, I was interested in mathematics.

  Tod Machover

  School, Thinking, Ideas

  "A Conversation with MIT Lab Inventor & Composer Tod Machover". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• For twelve years I studied and worked at them every day, and I was nearly 25 before I had the courage to play one of them in public. Before I did, no violinist or cellist had ever played a Suite in its entirety.

  Pablo Casals

  Years, Play, Twelve

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• I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Father, Generations, Four

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• My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Teacher, Men, Rose

  "Cellist Yo Yo Ma: His career and music". Live chat, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2001.

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• I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.

  Christian McKay

  Jealous, Instruments, Violinist

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• Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Musician, Doe

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