Reeds Quotes

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

I am a saxophone player.

It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.

I loved playing the saxophone.

I don’t think Ed Reed has to take a back seat to anybody who ever played the position. ANYBODY.

The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!

The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.

Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

David Simon goes to the Jewish Weekly and said he's made all this money, but he can't enjoy it because of criticism by people like Ishmael Reed.

I played with [Dwight Eisenhower] on the day after I won the Masters at his request. We became everlasting friends. I was with him the day before he died at Walter Reed.

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.

The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.

Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.

Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.

I heard the sighing of the reedsAt noontide and at evening,And some old dream I had forgottenI seemed to be remembering.

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

Clarinet is an incredible instrument. It's a great, expressive instrument.

Logic is a feeble reed, friend.

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

I always thought it was more interesting to think about Reed Richards. As you know, he had the ability to stretch, and sexually, that would seem to be a great asset in many areas.

I played clarinet for many years.

ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".

I'm helping people think the clarinet is cool.