Flute Quotes · Page 2

“I heard the Watersprinkler playing his flute.”

— Tony Hillerman

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

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

— James Galway

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

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

— Steven Pressfield

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

— Genndy Tartakovsky

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would…

— Khalil Gibran

Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind…

— Morton Feldman

“She calls herself Fleet ‘cause she used to be a flute player, back in the day. BC, you know?” “British Colombia?” He…

— Nalo Hopkinson

My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words,…

— Simon McBurney

I remember my sisters, they loved a movie called 'The Naked Island.' And the flute was actually playing the main theme. A…

— Alexandre Desplat

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet,…

— Tennessee Ernie Ford

Every day I practise my flute. I've been doing it for decades and every day I find something new that inspires me…

— Philippe Kahn

This big part flies off on the floor. The other part goes like this and lands in my foot! Standing up! It's…

— Danny DeVito

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

— James Galway

“Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through…

— Khalil Gibran

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

— James Galway

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

— Metro Boomin

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

— Simon McBurney

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

— Jarod Kintz

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

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

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

— Heidi Gardner

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

— R. Kelly

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

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

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Kabir

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

The same breath is blown into the flute, cornet, and bagpipe, but different music is produced according to the different instruments. In…

— Sandu Sundar Singh