Bassoon Quotes
- Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind… — Tom Waits
- At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time. — James Dyson
- It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look… — E. M. Forster
- The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people… — Frank Zappa
- I was curious about experimenting with different colors - kind of like having an expanded orchestra. Suddenly, instead of just writing for strings, you can… — Caroline Shaw
- I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra;… — Alexander McCall Smith