"I could invent... a set of kettles that sings the chorus of "Yellow Submarine," which is a song by The Beatles" (1)
"I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it helps to play a good beat. (2)
"It's pretty amazing that I can play "The Flight of the Bumblebee," because you have to hit incredibly fast parts, and that is extremely hard for me, because I don't really have wrists yet." (3)
”Songs are as sad as the listener.” (108)
“When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder." (180)
"At first that made me self-conscious. I suggested to Mrs. Rigley that maybe I could just play tambourine in the orchestra or something." (142)
Tambourine
"I didn't make the connection then, but now I'm thinking of Dubussy's Sunken Cathedral, one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written!" (162)
"When I'd wake up I'd tell her good morning. And before I'd go to bed we'd usually talk. She was always waiting for me on the other end." (102)
-this doesn't pertain to music so much as it does when Oskar's grandmother hears him speak. She loves him more than anything else in the world, and possibly that is the music to his grandmother's ears.