Band Quote by Nat Hentoff

I played clarinet for many years.

— Nadine Coyle

I was already playing the clarinet and the piano. My father's a piano player. But I wanted to play in a funk band, and…

— Marcus Miller

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

— Joel Murray

I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less.

— Artie Shaw

If anything, when I was young, I wanted to be an orchestra.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I wanted to be a jazz musician.

— Ron Cephas Jones

In high school, we had a really great jazz program that I finally was able to be a part of. They only wanted instrumentalists;…

— Dianne Reeves

I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, 'What do…

— Christopher Guest

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

— Alvin Lee

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides…

— Bobby McFerrin

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

— Deborah Moggach

Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

— Gerry Mulligan