Peter De Vries Quotes

The trumpet is forceful.

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

The harmonica is a great instrument.

Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

I don't play the tuba.

I like the sparkle of the vibraphone.

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

I do a mean mouth trumpet.

I always find that there is a real communication between voice and violin.

Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.

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

As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

The FBI announced today that they are now looking for Osama bin Laden's financial adviser. You think this guy is in demand. How good can he be? his top client is living in a cave and driving a donkey. It doesn't sound like he is getting the best return on his investments to me.

Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.

If you thought Stairway to Heaven was a long song, dear god you should listen to it played on a lute.

A guitar has moonlight in it.

Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.

There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.

If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me.

It's weird the way "finger puppet" sounds okay as a noun... ladies.

You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs.