Bagpipes Quote by Lisa Stansfield

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

— Marcus Aurelius

Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

— John Lennon

My favorite sitcom of all time is 'Cheers.' That's a perfect example of how, like, people made fun of Cliff, but you never got…

— Michael Schur

Life is like a cliff, everyone falls, but what counts is whether you decide to climb back up.

— Anonymous

“But,' I ducked the subject, 'don't heaps of artists use pseudonyms?' 'Who?' 'Um . . .' Only Cliff Richard and Sid Vicious came to…

— David Mitchell

“began to read a piece on how a high street chain of stores had banned Cliff Richard’s Christmas songs.”

— Robert Galbraith

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

Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe.

— Brother Dave Gardner

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

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

“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

...I got to try the bagpipes. It was like trying to blow an octopus.

— James Galway

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

“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

“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