What the hell is an oboe?

It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time, but some…

— Ian Anderson

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

— Bennett Cerf

The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.

— Victor Borge

The oboe's a horn made of wood. I'd play you a tune if I could, But the reeds are a pain, And the fingering's…

— Ogden Nash

For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe…

— Marcel Tabuteau

When you play the oboe, the flute or other wind instruments, there is something between you and the breath; there is the embouchure, the…

— Michala Petri

I play the keyboard, but I am fond of all wind instruments, the oboe in particular.

— Amit Trivedi

“Dad brought it home from Paris when Terese was five. What other kid that age had a $10,000 oboe?”

— S.A. Bodeen

I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just don't have…

— Lola Kirke

Band is the best when you play the oboe!!!!!

— Janeydean O'connor

“...he brought music of his own, and awakened every fairy echo with the tender accents of his oboe...”

— Ann Radcliffe

The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I'm struggling to play something that my oboe teacher was doing when she was…

— Lola Kirke

I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.

— Lola Kirke

One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.

— Kenneth G. Wilson

The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through…

— Anthony Burgess