Best Flutes Sayings
96 Flutes quotes by 72 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.
— Paul Twitchell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes…
— Daniel Dennett
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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
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The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.
— John Dryden
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from…
— Euripides
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...and for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute...
— Tom Stoppard
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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
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