Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more…

I was not a band geek, per say. But me and my two older sisters played instruments, so I would come home and my…

— Miles Teller

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

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

[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible.

— Nat Hentoff

I'm not conditioned to be an entertainer. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. The problem with that is…

— Artie Shaw

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear…

— Pete Fountain

I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing…

— Howard Shore

Yeah, musically, from a production standpoint my favorite is probably 'Have a Little Talk with Jesus'. Just the way it turned out production wise…

— Bart Millard

I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and…

— Samantha Barks

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

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

— Victor Borge

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

— Alvin Lee