Oboes Sound Quotes & Sayings

Once my grandmother told me I needed to find God and I said, "Why don't you just tell me where to look and save me the trouble?" I was dead serious. Faith, destiny, all the shit you can't see, but yet people are so willing to take the leap. Not me. — Renee Carlino

As I writer, I only have moments of clarity when my whole purpose is plain and laid out before me. The rest of the time I muddle about blind groping for clear purpose again. — Rich Feitelberg

Headphones opened up a world of sonic colors, a palette of nuances and details that went far beyond the chords and melody, the lyrics, or a particular singer's voice. The swampy Deep South ambience of "Green River" by Creedence, or the pastoral, open-space beauty of the Beatles' "Mother Nature's Son"; the oboes in Beethoven's Sixth (conducted by Karajan), faint and drenched in the atmosphere of a large wood-and-stone church; the sound was an enveloping experience. — Daniel J. Levitin

ecumenical relations it is important not only to know each other better, but also to recognize what the Spirit has sown in the other as a gift for us. — Pope Francis

Now and again we would happen to step out of the familiar universe into a sudden sharp shock of sweetly scented air, sudden as spilled perfume, piercing as crystal, dark and sweet as the sound of oboes. — Steven Millhauser

Going to church is a beautiful act of humility. You are saying to the world, "I need God and His family. — Carlos A. Rodriguez

The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold. — Victor Borge

Let the blossoms of love beautify your heart.
Let the spirit dance with joy. — Debasish Mridha

And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare ... oh, it's just an oboe player. — Steve Irwin

Grace is especially associated with men in their sins; mercy is especially associated with men in their misery. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound? — Daniel Dennett