Quotes About Woodwinds

#1. Jutta drags herself closer; she watches her brother with outsize eyes. A piano chases the violins. Then woodwinds. The strings sprint, woodwinds fluttering behind. More instruments join in. Flutes? Harps? The song races, seems to loop back over itself. "Werner?" Jutta whispers. He blinks;

Anthony Doerr

#2. I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds - but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn't say, 'My God, that guy can play.' It'd probably sound more like Jack Benny.

Jon Tester

#3. People always figure it's the color guard, but seriously, it's the woodwinds you've got to look out for.

Jackson Pearce

#4. I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early Twenties. If you take a look at some of the old pictures of Chick Webb, then you will see the flute right there on the bandstand among the woodwinds.

Yusef Lateef

#5. The hooting of the owl with its tender wing is more familiar to me than the crowing of the cock. I prefer the strings to the woodwinds. Intermission: that is the darkness. The light feels like a vague scratching; it is malaise rather than pain. I am glad to sink back into darkness.

Ernst Junger

#6. Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud.

Richard Strauss

#7. This is how Thomas lives his life, one misfired dream after the other. That journey may stretch for a lifetime, but even if he doesn't discover that spark until he's an old man, Thomas will die with wrinkles he earned and a smile on his face.

Adam Silvera

#8. In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.

James Boswell

#9. Our rights come from God, not government.

Cheryl K. Chumley

#10. The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Lady Bird Johnson

#11. I still have my agent back in Australia keeping an eye on things there, and we are trying to find the right job which will bring me home to shoot.

Margot Robbie

#12. From whom but the Devil did this advice come under which you are acting? Those who are urging you to repeat your former wrongdoings against an innocent person are seeking in this not your honour but their own convenience. They are clearly the enemies of your crown and the disturbers of your realm.

Alison Weir

#13. My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.

Chuck Palahniuk