“When you think about it, playing the bagpipes is a lot like wrestling an octopus.” — Jack Fulton Copy Share Image
The bagpipes sound exactly the same when you have finished as when you started — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I'll bet there aren't too many people hooked on crack who can play the bagpipes. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When I was 14, I was 5th in the world playing bagpipes - that's how I got the name Roddy the Piper,… — Roddy Piper Copy Share Image
Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“HOrrible. The most horrible sound on earth. The sound of death and torture and the agonies of a burning hell," Lisle said.… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
If the Scottish want to break away, I shall stand on Hadrian's Wall with a teary handkerchief, and say: 'Good riddance to… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
I've always said that when people start saying, 'Oh my God, why doesn't this woman put down her bagpipes?' then I will.… — Lisa Stansfield Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Stop calling bagpipes a musical instrument. They're actually a Scottish Breathalyzer test. You blow into one end, and if the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Initially, when I was making the bagpipes and reed instruments, it was different from the other instruments. In terms of sound itself,… — Yoshi Wada Copy Share Image
Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
When I hear the bagpipes, it makes the hairs on my neck stand on end. It always makes me weep. — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
I grew up with boys of all kinds - I have two brothers, and I was in a bagpipe band for several… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe. — Lee Trevino Copy Share Image
The Scots are subsidy junkies whingeing like a trampled bagpipe as they wait for their next fix of English taxpayers' money. — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Copy Share Image
I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they… — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Scottish bagpipe has two tenors and one bass - three drone pipes - and then the one chanter. If you put bagpipes… — Yoshi Wada Copy Share Image
There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Bagpipes is a woodwind instrument, so you have to warm it up. But in a wrestling dressing room? You've got to be… — Roddy Piper Copy Share Image
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I got into one of the Scottish classical styles called piobaireachd, which is a very old music that started around the 1700s… — Yoshi Wada Copy Share Image
