quotes about Flutes
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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 -
A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.
-- Chevy Chase -
I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
-- Ian Anderson -
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They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best.
-- James Galway -
The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.
-- James Galway -
Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.
-- James Galway -
The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
-- Kabir -
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Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes.
-- Mary Ann Shaffer -
Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap
-- Morton Feldman -
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 -
Every day I practise my flute. I've been doing it for decades and every day I find something new that inspires me for all the rest that I do in my days.
-- Philippe KahnSource : Interview with the Financial Times, 2002.
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O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.
-- Rabindranath Tagore -
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 from the French-Haitian contradance.
-- Rachel Kushner -
Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.
-- Rumi -
The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.
-- TheophrastusSource : Quoted in David Pickering Brewer'sTwentieth-Century Music (1994).
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Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.
-- Thomas Gray -
What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -
I've always liked using flutes and clarinets. Any time I can use those, I'm really happy.
-- A.C. NewmanSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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I was a bit of a tomboy, so I played softball and basketball. Then I was also a cheerleader. And I played flute too.
-- Natalie Grant -
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I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early Twenties. If you take a look at some of the old pictures of Chick Webb, then you will see the flute right there on the bandstand among the woodwinds.
-- Yusef Lateef