Luka Sulic

We wanted to make a powerful cello sound in order to show to the world the possibilities of the cello and to use it in a different way than the classical way they are used to. We wanted to play something exciting, something crazy, something to draw younger generations to this great instrument.

Croatian Musician

Jamie Foxx

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.

American Actor

Sam Abell

There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.

American Photographer

Beth Hart

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.

American Musician

Hildur Gudnadottir

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.

Icelander Musician

Ritchie Blackmore

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.

English Musician

Joan Allen

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.

American Actress

Mstislav Rostropovich

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

Russian Musician

Joshua Roman

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

Julian Bream

I went to college to study the piano and cello.

British Musician

The cello is primarily used in classical music, such as symphonies and chamber music.

Classical Instrument

Cello often provides the harmonic base in an orchestra, supporting the melody played by violins.

Orchestra Role

Solo cello pieces are profound, showcasing the instrument's deep and expressive range.

Solo Performance

 If I were here playing cello, or playing on a synth, or sharing my music with you, I'd be able to show things about myself that I can't tell you in words, more personal things, perhaps deeper things. I think that's true for many of us, and I want to give you two examples of how music is one of the most powerful interfaces we have,

Tod Machover & Dan...

 idea of string theory deep inside any of these particles there is something else there's something else is this dancing filament of energy it looks like a vibrating string that's where the idea of string theory comes from and just like the vibrating strings that you just saw on a cello can vibrate in different

String theory - Brian...

 Deep inside any of these particles, there is something else. This something else is this dancing filament of energy. It looks like a vibrating string -- that's where the idea, string theory comes from. And just like the vibrating strings that you just saw in a cello

Making sense of string...

 I told him, this is what the song is about and this is what the music is supposed to do in this part. And I asked him, "Do you think that the cello could represent my mom's voice?" And he listened to everything that I said. And then he played those notes.

Hrishikesh Hirway: What...

 a way of life and that music and culture an integral fabric of society there was a sense of history as a part of cultural expression in parallel to learning the music of the kora I was also studying the cello in western classical music for

Music as a refuge PIPE...

 My next book actually is about apps and design and I was really interested in the tension between those instruments, which are incredibly beautiful instruments. The cello has been around for several hundred years,

DJ Spooky's Arctic...

 anyway, the whole thing had burst. And I went to the IT guys here and a gentleman mended my computer, and then he said, "What are you doing here?" and I said "I'm playing the cello and I'm doing a bit of singing,"

Caroline Lavelle: A...

 to build and create a whole universe with many diverse layers, all generated from a single source. My cello and my voice are layered to create this large sonic canvas. When composers write music for me,

Maya Beiser(s) and her...

 On the flight here, I was reminded about my mom. I'm a self-taught cellist, I've never had a lesson. I studied double bass, but I just picked up the cello and started playing

How my mom inspired my...

 triggers more sounds so in the morning we might have a cello or piano but in the afternoon we might have guitars voices and then an even dozen they'll be rhythms