"The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator."

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Source : "Why the cello is a hero". Interview With Julian Lloyd Webber, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 28, 2004.

Mstislav Rostropovich

#Hero Quotes #Voice Quotes #Violin Quotes

“We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.”
“I believe in health care reform.”
“Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master!”
“All that the Devil asks is acquiescence ...”
“you can't kill love. you can't even kill it with hate. you can kill in-love, and loving, and even loveliness. you can kill them all, or numb them into dense, leaden regret, but you can't kill love itself. love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever. every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is a part of the universal good: it's a part of God, or what we call God, and it can never die.”
“When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.”
“I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money.”
“Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths”

Source : Andrew Harvey (2010). “The Direct Path”, p.249, Random House

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