Oboe Quotes

We block out more and push harder. They're not just going to jump over us, and we're going to let them know we're there. - Shannon Froboese

Ukraine's current energy consumption pattern is probably the country's main structural weakness. - Sergei Voloboev

The oboe will take the role of a lead guitar at certain points, too. I play a little harmonica, so sometimes we'll do some back-and-forth parts with the oboe and harmonica. It's a lot of fun. - Jonathan Reuel

One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969. - Kenneth G. Wilson

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

I usually try to walk pretty tall. It doesn't really intimidate anyone though. - Shannon Froboese

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

I don't remember the piece, but I do remember it wasn't the kind that prodigies play. What impressed me most was she had a clear understanding of the role of the soloist and the orchestra. She worked with the players. She knew the score so well she knew what each section had to play. So when the oboes were doing a passage, for example, she would look at them and smile. - Michael Hill

Even though we might not have showed it here, I think we finally earned everybody's respect with our run this season. - Shannon Froboese