Quotes About Oboes

#1. The overture began. God! Strings! Oboes! Timpani! Are you fucking kidding me? Why, when we know what human beings are capable of doing, do we not turn our collective heads in shame at the sight of rich housewives screaming at each other on television?

Meg Howrey

#2. Certain voices hold this odd pull on our heartstrings. They are like sad oboes or something, something that makes you want to throw all your money at the radio while yelling, "I love you." I don't know what it is.

Jonathan Goldstein

#3. Now and again we would happen to step out of the familiar universe into a sudden sharp shock of sweetly scented air, sudden as spilled perfume, piercing as crystal, dark and sweet as the sound of oboes.

Steven Millhauser

#4. How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?

Daniel Dennett

#5. I defend
Not my voice, but my silence

Anna Akhmatova

#6. Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Jack Kornfield

#7. If your intentions are pure I am seeking a friend for the end of the world.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#8. I might take what I do very seriously, but at least I'm doing something, rather than sitting on my arse and being no-one.

Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

#9. Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.

Chris Martin

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

Peter Drucker

#11. 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

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

Steve Irwin

#13. When Hillary served as Secretary of State, I watched her partner with President Obama to restore our country's reputation around the world.

Madeleine Albright

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

Bennett Cerf

#15. The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

Muriel Spark

#16. I started as a print reporter.

Jim Lehrer

#17. The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.

Eric Ries

#18. I'm the tower of power, too sweet to be sour. I'm funky like a monkey. Sky's the limit and space is the place!

Randy Savage

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

Victor Borge

#20. What the hell is an oboe?

Oscar Wilde

#21. He was afraid of the world, afraid it would find a way to swallow him up. But, maybe everyone was sometimes.

John Corey Whaley

#22. He can be High Warlock of my pants.

Cassandra Clare

#23. If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.

David Levithan

#24. I accept the responsibility but not the blame. Let me explain the difference. Those who are to blame lose their jobs. Those who are responsible do not.

David Frye

#25. No conflicting loyalties?"
"Not yet." But if it came to that, he had already made his choice. Her name was Brenna and she was his heartbeat.

Nalini Singh