Clarinet Quotes

Clarinet Quote of the day

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.

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

Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.

It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.

I've played the clarinet since I was a kid. I love to sing, but I'm not much of a singer. Let's say that when it comes to vocalizing, I have the soul of Billy Bigelow but the voice of Jigger Cragan.

Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!

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

I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life.

No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache.

Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.

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

You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.

The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.

[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible.

There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.

I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.

I've always liked using flutes and clarinets. Any time I can use those, I'm really happy.

The viola and the clarinet made for an interesting pairing: we had to imagine the accompaniment of other instruments, ideally a violin and a cello.

Tricky was a plain-faced man with a very handsome voice - a voice like the sound of a clarinet, at once liquid and penetrating, and lovely to listen to.