I've always liked using flutes and clarinets. Any time I…

There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.

— Ambrose Bierce

Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!

— Ray Still

Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

— Victor Borge

Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet –…

— Ambrose Bierce

Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and…

— David Mitchell

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even…

— Steve Lacy

I had a great year with Bob Mintzer [at Laguardia School of Arts]. Bob is great. We could have just brought the clarinet or…

— Jon Gordon

“I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot.”

— Jennifer Echols

Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!

— Eddie Condon

“Heath holds the door to the band room open for me, and I get to my chair without falling, snapping together my clarinet and…

— Mindy McGinnis

My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too…

— Goldie Hawn

The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.

— Victor Borge

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a…

— Tennessee Ernie Ford

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a…

— Luc Ferrari

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

— Alvin Lee