Clarinet Quote by Anonymous

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

— Artie Shaw

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

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

— Nat Hentoff

“Whenever the sixth tune on the flip side of the LP, “Atlanta Blues,” began, she would grab one of Tengo’s body parts and praise…

— Haruki Murakami

I played clarinet for many years.

— Nadine Coyle

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

Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly…

— Mel Torme

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

— Joel Murray

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

— Gustav Mahler

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

— Janeydean O'connor

Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.

— Andris Nelsons

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