Flute Quotes

95 Flute quotes by 68 unique authors

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
It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute. — Abigail Washburn
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
I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through. — Eckhart Tolle
The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love. — Kabir
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
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
The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box. — James Galway
The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting. — Plato
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
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
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
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
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. — Rumi
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? — Rumi
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… — Rumi
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

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