Top 172 Flute Quotes & Sayings

The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.

The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer!

The sarangi, the ney flute are pretty ancient instruments.

I played piano, flute, and guitar.

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.

I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through.

A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.

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

And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.

I took up a few sessions online to learn to play flute.

All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.

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

I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.

Once upon a time there was a girl who discovered that if she played a certain tune on a jade flute, she could summon up jade gnomes, a peculiar, harmless, but rather creepy looking spirit of the underground. The fact is that many of us have talents like this, but generally never discover them due to lack of opportunity, since one can go one's entire life without playing a jade flute, or discovering that one can speak the language of ground sloths, or turning fruitcake into solid tungsten by singing Sinatra tunes to it under a quarter moon.

The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.

The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.

You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds wrong. But some guys do it, and they think it's O.K., but not so!

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression.

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.

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

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

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.

The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.

He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute and a temple of God. He has become a harp by preserving the harmony of the virtues; a flute by receiving the inspiration of the Spirit through divine contemplation; and a temple by becoming a dwelling place of the Logos through the purity of his intellect.

I remember my sisters, they loved a movie called 'The Naked Island.' And the flute was actually playing the main theme. A Japanese movie. A beautiful movie from 1961. I remember hearing this music with a flute many, many times a day at home.

May the honey-sweet flute music that flows from Lord Mukunda's lotus mouth fill me with bliss.

I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell from note to note as a brook from rock to rock. I did not hear the strains after they had issued from the flute, but before they were breathed into it, for the original strain precedes the sound by as much as the echo follows after, and the rest is the perquisite of the rocks and trees and beasts. Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts, the very undertow of our life's stream.

It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.

The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.

I am classically trained in piano, flute, and voice.

Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.

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

'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.

I can play piano, classical flute, guitar, bass and I'm OK on drums.

I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer.

My father started me out on the flute and I began going to teachers.

Jazz flute's funny. And I'm a big Latin music fan, Tito Puente, Tina Cruz, all that stuff.

Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

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

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

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.

What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!

The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute.

The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe.

A flute with no holes is not a flute.

Be it flute, piano or any instrument, there would always be a reason to bring in the particular feel into a song.

They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best.

The tonality of the flute almost has a mystic element to me.

The heart-flute Knows how to charm the world.

There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.

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.

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.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

The flute is a weird instrument, especially when played solo.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.