Flutes Quote by Daniel Dennett

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…

— Anthony Burgess

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…

— David Mitchell

When you play the oboe, the flute or other wind instruments, there is something between you and the breath; there is the embouchure, the…

— Michala Petri

I was actually very surprised after using some plastic necklaces on the strings, as the sound was very bright. Sometimes I just put something…

— Volker Bertelmann

The isolation of Eastern Europe actually helped me to be so original. I couldn't travel so much, I had to find my own things,…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

The result was the same as tuning down the strings by a semitone and using a capo at the first fret. With less tension…

— Tal Farlow

The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.

— Victor Borge

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

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

All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not…

— Walt Whitman

But the stuff that I do is more like all the comic roles like in The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus and I just…

— Jason Graae

And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare...oh, it's just an oboe player.

— Steve Irwin