Oboe Quotes

8 quotes by 8 authors

• If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics,… — John Corigliano
• The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my… — Anthony Burgess
• I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between… — Gavin Bryars
• Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin,… — David Mitchell
• 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
• As somebody who has wanted to be an actor who is very young, I can relate to somebody who has been practicing oboe five days… — Lola Kirke
• One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969. — Kenneth G. Wilson
• Band is the best when you play the oboe!!!!! — Janeydean O'connor

Who Wrote These Oboe Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 8 Oboe Quotes as follows:

• 1 Oboe Quote by John Corigliano
• 1 Oboe Quote by Anthony Burgess
• 1 Oboe Quote by Gavin Bryars
• 1 Oboe Quote by David Mitchell
• 1 Oboe Quote by Caroline Shaw
• 1 Oboe Quote by Lola Kirke
• 1 Oboe Quote by Kenneth G. Wilson
• 1 Oboe Quote by Janeydean O'connor