Flute Quotes
95 quotes by 68 authors
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Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural…
— Morton Feldman
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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…
— Morton Feldman
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The heart-flute Knows how to charm the world.
— Sri Chinmoy
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They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best.
— James Galway
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The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality…
— Kate Braverman
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Each culture has some knowledge. That's why I studied with Saj Dev, an Indian flute player. That's why I studied Stockhausen's music. The pygmies' music…
— Yusef Lateef
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It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
— Abigail Washburn
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Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.
— Andrea Gibson
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I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through.
— Eckhart Tolle
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The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
— Kabir
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Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made.
— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
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The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft…
— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
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The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.
— James Galway
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The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.
— Plato
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I played the vina until my heart turned into the same instrument. Then I offered this instrument to the Divine Musician, the only muscian existing.…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter…
— Oscar Wilde
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For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good…
— Aristotle
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The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my…
— Anthony Burgess
Who Wrote These Flute Quotes
68 authors contributed a total of 95 Flute Quotes, led by these top contributors: