Quotes by Oboes An oboe is an ill-wind that nobody blows good. Bennett Cerf oboes blow wind 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. Gavin Bryars oboes writing thinking 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. Ian Anderson oboes different player 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. Jason Graae oboes theatre musical 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. John Corigliano oboes sound play 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. Joshua Bell oboes musician player One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969. Kenneth G. Wilson oboes hobbies mines 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. Michala Petri oboes play wind What the hell is an oboe? Oscar Wilde oboes hell Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute. Peter Drucker oboes should doe And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare...oh, it's just an oboe player. Steve Irwin oboes player sound 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. Steven Soderbergh oboes player mean The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold. Victor Borge oboes cold sound 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. Walt Whitman oboes singing sweet
