Quotes About Bassoon

#1. Does a banquet really need an asparagus server?" "Does an orchestra need a bassoon?

Amor Towles

#2. In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli. Made a musical notation of their snores. Elgar is to be played by a bass tuba, Ayrs a bassoon.

David Mitchell

#3. At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

James Dyson

#4. I've been writing and collecting songs on the ukulele for at least 10 years, so it was time to clear them out of the apartment building and make room for some new occupants.I need to make room for the bassoon record.

Eddie Vedder

#5. I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra; which actually is really terrible.

Alexander McCall Smith

#6. All night have the roses heard
The flute, violin, bassoon;
All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd
To the dancers dancing in tune;
Till a silence fell with the waking bird,
And a hush with the setting moon.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#7. Anything was better than Ezra learning to play the bassoon ...

Ernest Hemingway,

#8. There once was a brainy baboon,
Who always breathed down a bassoon,
For he said, It appears
That in billions of years
I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Arthur Eddington

#9. I was curious about experimenting with different colors - kind of like having an expanded orchestra. Suddenly, instead of just writing for strings, you can add bassoon and oboe and brass. I like these extreme differences in sounds right next to each other.

Caroline Shaw

#10. The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball ... I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.

Frank Zappa

#11. And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying down and rising up with the skeleton allotted to me for my mortal companion.

Charles Dickens

#12. Two years ago. To the best of my recollection, that was about the time I started to lose my mind.

Richard Bachman

#13. People have a habit, in the age of cameraphones and social networking, of being a bit too quick to turn all sorts of experiences into a 'memory'.

Tom Cox

#14. In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

Warren Farrell

#15. We have a saying in Guns N' Roses: 'When somebody's gonna get yelled at, they're gonna get the corn.'

Axl Rose

#16. I had to escape the destruction of my father's bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

Brendan Coyle

#17. When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

Lou Holtz

#18. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde