Contrabasses Quotes & Sayings

I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with. — Joe Mantello

I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about all those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not. — J.D. Salinger

Leala's breath was "like a cello sawing away against the bouncing-bow contrabasses of her heartbeat. — Ella Leya

You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living. — Roy Campanella

Most of life is unbearable. It's unbearable but we bear it — Frank Beddor

The view of earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just an amazing feeling. It's a totally different perspective, and it makes you appreciate, actually, how fragile our existence is. — Sally Ride

Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from ideally combining the noise of streetcars, internal-combustion engines, automobiles, and bust crowds than from rehearsing, for example, the 'Eroica' or the 'Pastorale' ... away! les ust be gone, since we shall not much longer succeed in restraining a desire to create a new musical realism by a generous distribution of sonorous blows and slaps, leaping numbly over violins, pianofortes, contrabasses, and groaning organs, Away! — Luigi Russolo

We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness. — Marianne Williamson

I'm vegetarian, but I love Thanksgiving dinner: faux turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes. — Leigh Lezark

I'm sorry. I souldn't have shut you out. I know you're hurting, too. "
"Permission to speak freely, Sire ?"
"Granted."
"You're an asshole," she said and hugged him. — Dianne Sylvan

I believe that those who die for Ireland have no need for prayer — Liam Mellows

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along. — Arthur Schopenhauer

What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist. — John D'Agata