Flutes Quote by Daniel Dennett

I guess I just look at talent as a very subjective thing. I mean, if you never tried playing an oboe, how do you…

— Steven Soderbergh

I've always liked using flutes and clarinets. Any time I can use those, I'm really happy.

— A.C. Newman

The oboe's a horn made of wood. I'd play you a tune if I could, But the reeds are a pain, And the fingering's…

— Ogden Nash

We all know that there are many people that can play the instrument perfectly today, up and down with technical perfection, but does the…

— David Finckel

For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe…

— Marcel Tabuteau

The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I'm struggling to play something that my oboe teacher was doing when she was…

— Lola Kirke

“There are, however, at least two varieties of imagination in the reader's case. So let us see which one of the two is the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

— Deep Roy

The way I think about things or hear things in my head is actually much closer to acoustic instruments. I don't have weird synthesized…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

“The range of rhythms in prose is larger and grander than it is in poetry, and it can handle discursive ideas and plain information…

— Annie Dillard

The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.

— Victor Borge

I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.

— Lola Kirke