Best Oboes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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 over the massed strings will sound?”

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Book:Consciousness Explained

Source: Consciousness Explained

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

Has Beens Mines Hobbies Oboes

Author:Kenneth G. Wilson

“It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time, but some of the orchestras do end up enjoying it and having a great time.”

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Author:Ian Anderson

“Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem.”

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Author:Joshua Bell

“Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is now fourteen, and, while he gives little sign of doing what Lord Rochester planned to do at the same age, there are nonetheless changes afoot. Harry's voice, like that of his best friend, Ron (Rupert Grint), sounds like the mating cry of an oboe, and, worse still, the two cease to be best friends.”

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Author:Anthony Lane

“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 insane. It's the ill wind that no one blows good.”

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Author:Ogden Nash

“For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored.”

Knows Years Stills Play Anxiety Bored Forty Coming Out Perpetual Oboes

Author:Marcel Tabuteau

“An oboe is an ill-wind that nobody blows good.”

Wind Ill Blow Oboes

Author:Bennett Cerf

“When you play the oboe, the flute or other wind instruments, there is something between you and the breath; there is the embouchure, the reed, etc. But with the recorder, I receive an immediate response from the instrument. This is something that attracted me to the instrument, that I could immediately feel the response of what I was doing.”

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Author:Michala Petri

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

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Author:Steve Irwin

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

Knows Should Doe Know How Conductor Oboes

Book:Post-Capitalist Society

Source: Post-Capitalist Society

“The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.”

Sound Cold Clarinet Oboes

Author:Victor Borge

“What the hell is an oboe?”

Hell Oboes

Author:Oscar Wilde

“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 the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.”

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Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

“But the stuff that I do is more like all the comic roles like in The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus and I just did this Offenbach operetta at the LA Opera. I love it. I just love it. For me, it's like a great mesh of musical theatre and my classical oboe background to be standing on these huge stages with a full orchestra and all the opulence. I'm a complete sucker for the over-the-topness.”

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Author:Jason Graae

“I guess I just look at talent as a very subjective thing. I mean, if you never tried playing an oboe, how do you know you're not the most talented oboe player ever? The point is that if you don't love it, then it doesn't matter.”

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Author:Steven Soderbergh

“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.”

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Author:Igor Stravinsky

“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 money at the radio while yelling, "I love you." I don't know what it is.”

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Author: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, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.”

Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel

“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, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there's about one way you can make it sound: like an oboe.”

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Author: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 guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.”

“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 an oboe and a viola, but louder.”

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Author:Gavin Bryars