Flute Quotes

95 quotes by 68 authors

I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell… — Henry David Thoreau
Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody. — Unknown Author
Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still go with my… — James Nesbitt
The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute? — Unknown Author
You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So… — Dag Hammarskjold
I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music you can imagine… — Scotty Moore
I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O… — Rabindranath Tagore
We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from… — Unknown Author
He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute and a temple… — Maximus the Confessor
Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent. — Johann Gottfried Herder
I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral… — Billy Childish
I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all… — James Galway
Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives… — Rachel Kushner
You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds wrong. But some… — Jerome Richardson
The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him… — William Ernest Henley
The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach… — Steve Lacy
Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers. — John Dryden
Rush like a river from the highest mountain, drink from the fountain and stop your counting. What kind of wine does he have in his… — Trevor Hall
I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying. — James Galway

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