Oboes Quotes

6 quotes by 6 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
• How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes… — Daniel Dennett
• Certain voices hold this odd pull on our heartstrings. They are like sad oboes or something, something that makes you want to throw all your… — Jonathan Goldstein
• 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

Who Wrote These Oboes Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 6 Oboes Quotes as follows:

• 1 Oboes Quote by Daniel Dennett
• 1 Oboes Quote by Jonathan Goldstein
• 1 Oboes Quote by John Corigliano
• 1 Oboes Quote by Anthony Burgess
• 1 Oboes Quote by Gavin Bryars
• 1 Oboes Quote by David Mitchell