Quote by Alfred Hitchcock

“about as emotional as a bagpipe.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“New Rule: Stop calling bagpipes a musical instrument. They're actually a Scottish Breathalyzer test. You blow into one end, and if the sound that…

— Bill Maher

“Pipes are not to be used for teaching, nor any artificial instruments, as the harp, or the like: but whatsoever will make the hearers…

— St. Thomas Aquinas

“Musick they have, but not the harmony of the sphears, but loud terrene noises, like the bellowing of beasts; the loud bagpipe is their…

— Alistair Campsie

...I got to try the bagpipes. It was like trying to blow an octopus.

— James Galway

When I hear the bagpipes, it makes the hairs on my neck stand on end. It always makes me weep.

— Ashley Jensen

“Maybe it's bred in the bone, but the sound of pipes is a little bit of heaven to some of us." - Nancy O'Keeefe”

— Cedric Kelly

“When you think about it, playing the bagpipes is a lot like wrestling an octopus.”

— Jack Fulton

“I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me,…

— William Shakespeare

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

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”

— John Keats