Quotes About Oboe

#1. I guess I just look at talent as a very subjective thing. I mean, if you never tried playing an oboe, how do you know you're not the most talented oboe player ever? The point is that if you don't love it, then it doesn't matter.

Steven Soderbergh

#2. The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I'm struggling to play something that my oboe teacher was doing when she was much younger than I am.

Lola Kirke

#3. If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there's about one way you can make it sound: like an oboe.

John Corigliano

#4. All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.

Walt Whitman

#5. For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored.

Marcel Tabuteau

#6. I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.

Lola Kirke

#7. I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just don't have that much time on my hands. I don't have the gift of going back to being a child and having my brain develop around this instrument.

Lola Kirke

#8. Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute.

Peter Drucker

#9. Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem.

Joshua Bell

#10. With a bad reed, my oboe could be a beastly instrument honking and squeaking as if it had a mind of its own. When my reeds were working, though, I learned that making a sound spoke my emotions more directly than my own voice.

Blair Tindall

#11. And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare ... oh, it's just an oboe player.

Steve Irwin

#12. An oboe is an ill-wind that nobody blows good.

Bennett Cerf

#13. One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.

Kenneth G. Wilson

#14. He had shining dark eyes and an oboe voice and mink-soft hair and could seem, even to Gary, more sentient animal than little boy.

Jonathan Franzen

#15. The horn . . . is the joint hardest instrument to learn. . . . (The other is the oboe).

Jasper Rees

#16. The oboe's a horn made of wood.
I'd play you a tune if I could,
But the reeds are a pain,
And the fingering's insane.
It's the ill wind that no one blows good.

Ogden Nash

#17. Dad brought it home from Paris when Terese was five. What other kid that age had a $10,000 oboe?

S.A. Bodeen

#18. 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

#19. What the hell is an oboe?

Oscar Wilde

#20. The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.

Victor Borge

#21. He brought music of his own, and awakened every fairy echo with the tender accents of his oboe ...

Ann Radcliffe

#22. As somebody who has wanted to be an actor who is very young, I can relate to somebody who has been practicing oboe five days a week since they were very young. The physicality of anything a character does is a tremendous gift.

Lola Kirke

#23. I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

Gavin Bryars

#24. I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.

Edward Dmytryk

#25. Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

Shane Claiborne

#26. I found the Divine within my Heart.

Rumi

#27. The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Albert Schweitzer

#28. Limits are very important.

Colin Greenwood

#29. Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.

Sydney J. Harris

#30. A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Samuel Goldwyn

#31. There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

Mary Renault

#32. Faith is unflinching trust in something divine.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#33. When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

Joseph Parker

#34. The field is the sole governing agency of the particle

Albert Einstein

#35. Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.

Margaret Atwood

#36. I don't like those shows where people get eliminated every week, and then they have to get meaner to survive.

Michel Gondry

#37. The truth
a hideous spectacle!

Conrad Aiken