Clarinet Quotes

The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.

— Victor Borge

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

— Ambrose Bierce

I played clarinet for many years.

— Nadine Coyle

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

— Norman Wisdom

Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.

— Artie Shaw

You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.

— Eric Maisel

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

— Lee Konitz

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

— Victor Borge

“And then yesterday…” He tosses the clarinet onto the bed. “Found out you belong to me.” He points at me. “I own…

— Jandy Nelson

No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache.

— Edward Hoagland

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

— Nat Hentoff

“Oh, the drums, of course,” Jase says. “It was the clarinet, but then he realized that was just not a turn-on.”

— Anonymous

Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.

— Alan Greenspan

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

— Steve Lacy

I spend a lot of time idly. I go to sporting events, play my clarinet. I practise. But if you work every…

— Woody Allen

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

— Howard Shore

I would pass this music store on the way to school, and there was a clarinet in the window, a second-hand one.…

— Wayne Shorter

Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons,…

— Anonymous

“He was young and tall, his hair was the color of fresh corn, his fingers were as thick as cigars, and he…

— Peter Baida

I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar,…

— Kat Dennings

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through…

— Diane Kruger

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

— Artie Shaw

I remember being a kid and wanting to be so many different things. There was even one point that I wanted to…

— Eliza Scanlen

In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I…

— Woody Allen

So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called…

— Haruki Murakami

“I called Monsieur Menicucci, and he asked anxiously about my pipes. I told him they were holding up well. "That pleases me,"…

— Peter Mayle

When I was a little kid, I saw a guy with one of those cancer clarinets, and I flipped out. I totally…

— Billy West

The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet…

— Randy Bachman

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

— 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…

— Artie Shaw

One nice thing about my momma is, she never gets on you for what you are not doing. I mean, she never…

— Bruce Brooks

The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Ray Still

My mother was an opera singer and my father is a clarinet player, composer and conductor.

— Hildur Gudnadottir

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

— Joel Murray

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

— Lee Konitz

Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

— Gerry Mulligan

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.

— Acker Bilk

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

— Artie Shaw

Your call is very important to us. Please enjoy this 50 minute clarinet solo.

— Anonymous