Flute Quotes

95 Flute quotes by 68 unique authors

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
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed,… — Khalil Gibran
I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini. — Francis Ford Coppola
It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I'm in… — Danny DeVito
The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up… — John Lydon
My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals… — Rachel Weisz
...and for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute... — Tom Stoppard
His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral… — Janet Fitch
God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the… — Rumi
Harry ran upstairs to their dark dormitory. He pulled out the cloak and then his eyes fell on the flute Hagrid had given him for… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender… — Rumi
I turned to look into his face one last time. It was as if I could see the whole universe in his eyes. Maybe he… — Christopher Pike
What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes! — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first… — George Eliot
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin,… — David Mitchell
Everything I said he agreed with, which was trying, and his flute playing would make the deaf wince, but I think the real problem with… — Megan Whalen Turner

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