I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have…

That's the clarinet I used to use... but it's just a piece of wood, you know, with holes in it and they put these…

— Artie Shaw

Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.

— Artie Shaw

Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

— Artie Shaw

When I first met Benny Goodman he wouldn't talk about anything but clarinets, mouthpieces, reeds, etc. When I tried to change the subject, he…

— Artie Shaw

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

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

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

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

— Victor Borge

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