Cello Playing Quotes

The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.

I got into cello in the fourth grade, and I played that for years. I adored playing it. I got an opera coach when I was 12 because I really wanted to learn how to sing properly. The only proper way to sing, I thought at that age, was opera.

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.

I was actually going to go to a conservatory after I graduated college, now I'm thankful that Pentatonix happened because I'm working with singers in this realm of mainstream music, and to learn about how all that comes together has really helped my cello playing.

I played cello on my early recordings, but that doesn't mean I'm a cellist, you know?

I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.

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 am a singer, first and foremost, but the medium happens to be the cello.

I play in tune like a cello player and use legitimate vibrato. There are no tricks; it's just all in the hands!

I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.

I would like to learn to play the cello. I would like to paint. I would like to fully understand the concept of pi.

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.