Clarinet Quote by Acker Bilk

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

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

— Joel Murray

I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

— Jandy Nelson

The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.

— Victor Borge

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

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

— Artie Shaw

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

— Anonymous

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

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Gerry Mulligan

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

— Ray Still

I've always liked using flutes and clarinets. Any time I can use those, I'm really happy.

— A.C. Newman

I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, 'What do…

— Christopher Guest