Flute Quotes · Page 2

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

— Vatsal Sheth

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

— Ian Anderson

Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to…

— Rachael Yamagata

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

— Andrea Bocelli

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

— Simon McBurney

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

— Ian Anderson

I got my eyes on you. Baby let me tell you that are the truth. I love your Indian flute. Oh da…

— Timbaland

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

— James Galway

“The Band advances to the cadence of the flute, and has no call for retreat. Its code is Stand and Die.”

— Steven Pressfield

I can play the flute. Music was my favourite A-level, and I used to love composing my and stylising my voice to…

— Erin O'Connor

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been…

— Anonymous

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

— R. Carlos Nakai

“The flute of the Pied Piper of Hamelin has never left us and it is essential that we train our ear to…

— Dimitris Mita

I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously,…

— James Galway

My training in music has been very eclectic - as first a flute player from classical chamber music to jazz, Greek, Brazilian…

— Alexandre Desplat

Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart...It's easier to play if it's right from your…

— Eddie Cahill

I found that the flute was too limiting. Soon I bought a microphone, then loudspeakers, then an echo, then a synthesiser. Much…

— Florian Schneider

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

— Rumi

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

— Shawn Amos

“I closed my eyes during a flute solo, wishing I could wrap the silvery sound around me like armor.”

— Jodi Meadows

“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.”

— Khalil Gibran

I love thee as I love the tone Of some soft-breathing flute Whose soul is wak'd for me alone, When all beside…

— Eliza Acton

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

— Anonymous

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

— Abigail Washburn

Some people say 'flutist.' Others say 'flautist.' I just say 'flute player.' That's what I was.

— Henry Mancini

I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.

— R. Kelly

I was in the orchestra pit for 'Pippin' my freshman year. I played flute. But I only did it because I had…

— Heidi Gardner

Life is like a flute. It may have many holes and emptiness but if you work on it carefully, it can play…

— Anonymous

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

— Jonas Blue

“I know a flute player is technically called a "flautist," but something about it sounds a little sketchy, as does "pianist," so…

— Julie Halpern

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

— Kabir

“If you knew the history of that flute, it would make your brain flip upside-down. And”

— Brandon Sanderson

To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers. [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— KiKi Layne

“Life is a living flute, yoga is the art of creating melody and rhythm in it.”

— Amit Ray

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

— Plato

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

— Andrea Bocelli

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in…

— Rumi

“Am I the only guy that holds a flute of champagne like it’s a musical instrument?”

— Jarod Kintz

All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills.…

— Ian Anderson