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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
When I die, I'd like to come back as a cello.
I went to college to study the piano and cello.
I'm a sucker for emotionally exploitative cello.
I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
A cello was there 400 years ago and will still be here in 400 years.
I am a singer, first and foremost, but the medium happens to be the cello.
I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
We are so excited to be touring and showing audiences the versatility of the cello.
I played cello on my early recordings, but that doesn't mean I'm a cellist, you know?
It is an attention-getter. I mean, it's hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.
No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?
I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.
I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.
I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background.
Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.
I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.
I play in tune like a cello player and use legitimate vibrato. There are no tricks; it's just all in the hands!
When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.
Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes.
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!
It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities.
I was the good girl. The straight A student, on the honour roll, part of the choir... I played the cello badly. I did plays.
My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.
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.
I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is devoted to that.
But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.
I've spent some time in Edinburgh before. I used to go up there to busk and actually went to the Fringe a few times as a teenager with my cello.
We get so many kids telling us that they've taken up the violin or cello. It's really special, and it wasn't really our intention in the beginning.
I would have never thought to put cello and beatboxing together. But I did, and it was extremely hard work to make it cohesive and musical, but it worked.
With 'Game of Thrones,' the most dominant instrument would definitely be the cello. That's something I just felt really captured the mood of the show very well.
Singing is something that I have done all my life, but what I did on my first two records was to hide the vocals. They're there to thicken the web of the cello.
I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
I learned playing cello in 'Cantabile' and Go in 'Reply 1988.' In 'Moonlight Drawn by Clouds,' I learned horse riding and Geomungo. It's fun to learn new things.
We have a lot of people onstage. We have a live violin, live cello, live drums played on this kind of massive electronic kit with some acoustic elements built in.
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.
It has endless possibilities, and but what we do with our arrangements, we move the borders of cello playing and discover new ways of new techniques of cello playing.
I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.
Yeah, uh, no, I play the cello. I played it, when, a lot when I was younger and it's one of those such a beautiful instrument. It's kind of the few things I've kept up.
A cello can sound like so many instruments, but it's only one, you know, like a guitar; it has percussive qualities. It can sing like the violin, you know, like a voice.
The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the violin. It has the perfect shape, and its sound is the closest to the human voice.
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.
I remember when I first got my cello when I was 8 years old. I remember the room it was in and what the lacquer smelled like. Instruments have just been something very special to me.
I did a capella for a year at boarding school and then I stopped because at Yale, I think they really focus more on singing than having a beat behind them. So I just did my cello thing.
My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.
I don't even want to say I'm trying to necessarily popularize classical music, I just want to take this thing, this cello, this sound, and make it artistic so people can understand it today.