Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute."
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Oboes
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Oscar Wilde
Writer
"What the hell is an oboe?"
Walt Whitman
Poet, Essayist
"All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they."
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