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“The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot.”

— Jennifer Echols

“ Muse When at night I wait for her to come, Life, it seems, hangs by a single strand. What are glory, youth, freedom,…

— Anna Akhmatova

“Life, she felt, was an instrument, and the trick was to find the tune you could play on it.”

— Owen Sheers

“He was supposed to be reading, but all he could do was watch her and love her bare arms, her Alice band, her straight…

— Ian McEwan

“You make me feel like honey and trombones.”

— Anis Mojgani

“Oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and…

— Anthony Burgess

“For you, anything.” And as I did as I was instructed, I realized it was no different than playing a wind instrument. There were…

— David Sedaris

“Eh, I've always rather enjoyed being fashionably late." I picked up the violin case for Melanie, giving her an hug before clambering off the…

— Allison Pang

“She was learning that if she pretended to be weak and frightened, and dabbed at her eyes with a lacy handkerchief, she could turn…

— Philip Pullman

“It’s amazing how much you seem to know, Jill.” Eve swung toward her. “Tell me again why you came to see me that night?”…

— Sonia Parin

“Don’t let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story-just like the typewriter was mine.”

— Flannery O'Connor