Hell Quote by Oscar Wilde

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

The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.

— Victor Borge

Band is the best when you play the oboe!!!!!

— Janeydean O'connor

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

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

— Steve Irwin

One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.

— Kenneth G. Wilson

Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute.

— Peter Drucker

I play the keyboard, but I am fond of all wind instruments, the oboe in particular.

— Amit Trivedi

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

— Lola Kirke

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 remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross…

— Gavin Bryars

“The horn . . . is the joint hardest instrument to learn. . . . (The other is the oboe).”

— Jasper Rees