Double Bass Quotes

• In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it

  Paul Fournel

  Orchestra, Forget, Hard

  Paul Fournel (2003). “Need for the Bike”, p.57, U of Nebraska Press

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• It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Sculpture, Baggage, Handicapped

  DOROTHY L. SAYERS (1956). “Clouds of Witness AND The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club”

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• I think a double bass for me would be too much effort. But the cello, you're really engaged and the sound is kind of right here. So, it feels like being merged, married to an instrument.

  Tod Machover

  Thinking, Effort, Sound

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim: 'Look, I too am living on the earth. See, I can buzz, too, buzz about anything.'

  Anton Chekhov

  Horse, Doe, Looks

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• It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

  Alvin Lee

  Double Standard, Firsts, First Time

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