Double Bass Quotes

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

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  Alvin Lee

  Double Bass   Double Standard   Firsts  

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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.'

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  Anton Chekhov

  Horse   Double Bass   Doe  

  1897

• 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.

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  Tod Machover

  Thinking   Double Bass   Effort  

  Source: bigthink.com

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

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  Paul Fournel

  Double Bass   Orchestra   Forget  

  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.

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  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Double Bass   Sculpture   Baggage  

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

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