A Quote by Florian Schneider

I found that the flute was too limiting. Soon I bought a microphone, then loudspeakers, then an echo, then a synthesiser. Much later I threw the flute away; it was a sort of process.

Florian Schneider

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Away Bought Echo Flute Found Later Limiting Microphone Much Process Soon Sort Then Threw Too

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Florian Schneider
German - Musician
April 7, 1947 - April 21, 2020

I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early Twenties. If you take a look at some of the old pictures of Chick Webb, then you will see the flute right there on the bandstand among the woodwinds.

Yusef Lateef

QUINCE Francis Flute, the bellows-mender. FLUTE Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE Flute, you must take Thisby on you. FLUTE What is Thisby? a wandering knight? QUINCE It is the lady that Pyramus must love. FLUTE Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming.

William Shakespeare

My parents did call me Zowie now and then, but then, realising that it drew too much attention, they called me 'Joe'. Then, later, I sort-of co-opted my own name back.

Duncan Jones

There's the whole significance of Krishna as the flute player who awakens our consciousness. It doesn't necessarily have to be a flute because for me it was a sitar or a guitar or even Elvis Presley doing "Heartbreak Hotel." It was like Krishna's flute calling me somewhere. It's just really simple when we can remember.

George Harrison

Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining a flute and then making that sound materialize. That's easy!

Christopher Young

I was a bit of a tomboy, so I played softball and basketball. Then I was also a cheerleader. And I played flute too.

Natalie Grant

I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

Abigail Washburn

The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?

Rumi

Growing up, flute riffs was big in rap back then. It's what I listened to.

Metro Boomin

I started off with the flute and French horn, and then I was playing trumpet in the jazz band.

KiKi Layne

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.

Bobby McFerrin

I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

Abigail Washburn

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me

Morton Feldman

I also always carry my flute. It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.

Andrea Bocelli

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me.

Morton Feldman

When I was seven years old I played the flute, then by 11 I quit being a musician and got into Djing.