Bassoon Quotes

• There once was a brainy baboon,
  Who always breathed down a bassoon,
  For he said, It appears
  That in billions of years
  I shall certainly hit on a tune.

  Arthur Eddington

  Years, Tunes, Baboons

  New Pathways in Science Chapter III, Section IV The End of the World (p. 62)

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• The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.

  Frank Zappa

  Baseball, People, Aroma

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• The wind,
  Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry,
  Came bluntly thundering, more terrible
  Than the revenge of music on bassoons.

  Wallace Stevens

  Revenge, Wind, Cry

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.100, Vintage

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• I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It's ridiculous!

  Witold Lutosławski

  Running, Play, Ridiculous

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• Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind but in the fingers, going to happy places. You have to break them of their habits or you don't explore; you only play what is confident and pleasing. I'm learning to break those habits by playing instruments I know absolutely nothing about, like a bassoon or a waterphone.

  Tom Waits

  Dog, Hands, Play

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• All night have the roses heard
  The flute, violin, bassoon;
  All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd
  To the dancers dancing in tune;
  Till a silence fell with the waking bird,
  And a hush with the setting moon.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dance, Moon, Night

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.890, Delphi Classics

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• At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

  James Dyson

  Prayer, School, Boys

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• It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons. It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.

  E. M. Forster

  Beautiful, Sports, Eye

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.361, Delphi Classics

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• I've been writing and collecting songs on the ukulele for at least 10 years, so it was time to clear them out of the apartment building and make room for some new occupants.I need to make room for the bassoon record.

  Eddie Vedder

  Song, Writing, Years

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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