Top 5 Double Bass Quotes

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.

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.'

Anton Chekhov

Horse, Double Bass, Doe

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

Paul Fournel

Double Bass, Orchestra, Forget

Paul Fournel (2003). “Need for the Bike”, p.57, U of Nebraska Press

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Double Bass, Sculpture, Baggage

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

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.

Tod Machover

Thinking, Double Bass, Effort

Source: bigthink.com