Bagpipes Quote by James Galway Download Open image “...I got to try the bagpipes. It was like trying to blow an octopus.” — James Galway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bagpipes Blow Octopus Trying
When I hear the bagpipes, it makes the hairs on my neck stand on end. It always makes me weep. — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Stop calling bagpipes a musical instrument. They're actually a Scottish Breathalyzer test. You blow into one end, and if the sound that… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Bagpipes is a woodwind instrument, so you have to warm it up. But in a wrestling dressing room? You've got to be kidding me. — Roddy Piper Copy Share Image
“Musick they have, but not the harmony of the sphears, but loud terrene noises, like the bellowing of beasts; the loud bagpipe is their… — Alistair Campsie Copy Share Image
The bagpipes sound exactly the same when you have finished as when you started — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I had this instrument that I built in high school. It was a huge, six-foot-long stringed instrument, and I started playing with that amplified… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Initially, when I was making the bagpipes and reed instruments, it was different from the other instruments. In terms of sound itself, it may… — Yoshi Wada Copy Share Image
I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing. — John Otto Copy Share Image
The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box. — James Galway Copy Share Image
I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you… — James Galway Copy Share Image
Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding. — James Galway Copy Share Image
I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying. — James Galway Copy Share Image
Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom. — James Galway Copy Share Image
They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best. — James Galway Copy Share Image
“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Stop calling bagpipes a musical instrument. They're actually a Scottish Breathalyzer test. You blow into one end, and if the sound that… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“HOrrible. The most horrible sound on earth. The sound of death and torture and the agonies of a burning hell," Lisle said. "Damn them.… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Initially, when I was making the bagpipes and reed instruments, it was different from the other instruments. In terms of sound itself, it may… — Yoshi Wada Copy Share Image
Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If the Scottish want to break away, I shall stand on Hadrian's Wall with a teary handkerchief, and say: 'Good riddance to the lot… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I'll bet there aren't too many people hooked on crack who can play the bagpipes. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
