Clarinet Quotes - Page 2

• I'm not conditioned to be an entertainer. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. The problem with that is artists are misunderstood by all. I'm not interested in the clarinet but in music. we speak our emotions into music. An artist should write for himself and not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away. My situation is the same. Let them concentrate on my music and not on me. I like the music. I love it and live it, in fact. But for me, the business part of music just plain stinks.

  Artie Shaw

  Writing, Artist, Misunderstood

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

  Eddie Condon

  Jazz, Said, Cases

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

  Alan Greenspan

  Play, Piano, Facts

  Source: www.today.com

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• 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.

  Daniel Handler

  Distance, School, Long

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• 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.

  Imogen Heap

  Guitar, Piano, Sound

  Chicago Pride Interview, chicago.gopride.com. February 20, 2006.

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• In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.

  Woody Allen

  Morning, Real, Character

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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

  Sara Zarr

  Passion, Discipline, Violin

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

  Nat Hentoff

  Play, Band, Dukes

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• [Some] times I'd have sound but no image. When Patti [Smith] was singing with her guitar, or doing something amazing with her clarinet, I'd just mess around and record the sound. So we'd use those sounds as another layer in the film [Dream of Life].

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Guitar, Singing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way?

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, Thinking, Play

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

  Artie Shaw

  Listening, Scalpels, Goodman

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Two, Instruments

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• The saxophone was created to mimic the human voice and I think that's why I gravitated toward the saxophone eventually. I'd loved the clarinet, but there's something about the saxophone that just grabs you.

  Matana Roberts

  Thinking, Voice, Saxophone

  Source: thequietus.com

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• One nice thing about my momma is, she never gets on you for what you are not doing. I mean, she never looks away from the things you do only to notice what isn't on the plan. This is the most important thing in getting along with...anybody, and I can tell you because I copy it from her and it makes good sense. You don't go looking at the things people don't do, when they already be doing plenty in other areas. If your son collects stamps, why you want to go fussing at him because he doesn't play the clarinet? Check out his stamps, man.

  Bruce Brooks

  Nice, Mean, Son

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• Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!

  Ray Still

  Moving, Musical, Sound

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• 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.

  Howard Shore

  Writing, Class, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It was as though we were speaking in different languages. If the Dalai Lama were on his deathbed and the jazz musician Eric Dolphy were to try to explain to him the importance of choosing one's engine oil in accordance with changes in the sound of the bass clarinet, that exchange might have been more worthwhile and effective than my conversations with Noboru Wataya.

  Haruki Murakami

  Oil, Trying, Musician

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.78, Random House

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• She's alone, they kept telling themselves, and surely she danced in no one's arms, yet somehow that seemed to matter less and less. As the night went on, and clarinet and coyote call mingled beyond the lantern light, the magic of their own powder-blue jackets and orchids seemed to fade, and it came to them in small sensations that they were more alone than she was.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Night, Light, Blue

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.106, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

  David Mitchell

  Keys, Order, Color

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.445, Random House

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• I was already playing the clarinet and the piano. My father's a piano player. But I wanted to play in a funk band, and the clarinet wasn't fit. So you was "Hey, man, can I sit in?" They're like, "No, man." So I started fooling around with the bass.

  Marcus Miller

  Player, Men, Fit

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A lot of the musicians asked me if when I hit my high-Cs on the records I had a clarinet take the notes. Some [thought] I had invented some kind of gadget so I could play high register. They weren't satisfied until they handed me a trumpet that they had with them and had me swing it. Then they cheered.

  Louis Armstrong

  Play, Swings, Musician

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

  A.C. Newman

  Use, Flutes, Really Happy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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.

  Samantha Barks

  Church Choir, Play, Rocks

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• 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.

  Victor Borge

  Music, Humorous, Snakes

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• Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.

  Pete Townshend

  Father, Guitar, Style

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