Bassoon Quotes

This is one of the best concertos ever written for bassoon. Beauty of sound, beauty of technique. It was written early 19th century. It's still popular, still great music. - Arnold Irchai

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.'' - Ezra Pound

Some people crave baseball - I find this unfathomable but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing a bassoon. - Frank Zappa

If you think about the way a composer would go in a room and score, let's say, the oboe's gonna play this note, the bassoon's gonna play that note, the french horn will play that note, the resultant sound, the combination of those notes makes kind of a chord, and I'm doing the same thing with color. - Chuck Close

A kind of duet-she as oboe, he as contrabassoon, and full of obbligato digressions. - Richard Eder