Top 27 Bagpipe Quotes
#1. When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
Jack Finney
#2. 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
#4. There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some sort of drone instrument, and there's always percussion.
Paul Weller
#5. It sounds like the cry of a newborn demon ready to destroy all peace and love!" Dietmar said. "But I believe it is merely a bagpipe.
Michael Grant
#6. I somberly reflected that the history of the Highlands is five hundred years of cruelty and bloodshed followed by two hundred years of way too much bagpipe music.
Bill Bryson
#7. Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.
William Shakespeare
#8. Scottish bagpipe has two tenors and one bass - three drone pipes - and then the one chanter. If you put bagpipes together, it creates such a fine sound.
Yoshi Wada
#9. Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.
Lee Trevino
#11. The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.
Peter S. Beagle
#13. I grew up with boys of all kinds - I have two brothers, and I was in a bagpipe band for several years.
Maggie Stiefvater
#14. Harry heard the final, quavering note from the bagpipe with relief.
J.K. Rowling
#15. His head tilted to the side and humor twinkled in his dark eyes. "Turn yer back."
'Are you shy? What's wrong, big guy? Afraid to show me your Scottish bagpipe? Are ye built like a moose and hung like a mouse?
Vonnie Davis
#16. He [Lyndon Johnson] hated the war. He hated having anybody put in harm away. But he believed that what we were doing is what we had to do for our commitments with SEATO, for many reasons. And he was carrying forth a policy that he had inherited. And he tried and got us to the peace table in 1968.
Lynda Bird Johnson Robb
#17. But I won't be. Every day that you're there, I will wonder what has become of you. I won't ... I won't forget you. Not for one hour.
Sarah J. Maas
#18. For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me.
Margaux Hemingway
#19. I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.
Conor McGregor
#20. Excuse me, miss, but the young gentlemen say that you cannot get smoke without the boom, and they would like your advice on how to proceed.
Ally Carter
#21. A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.
Max McKeown
#22. According to Bela Szabados, it can be dangerous to ignore philosophers' personalities because philosophizing is a personal interpretation of truth.
Skye Cleary
#23. The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
Baron De Montesquieu
#25. Until His sovereign will becomes your sanctified wish, your prayer life will be unplugged from its power supply.
Mark Batterson
#26. Whether we report Iran to the council or not, I believe the only way forward is through diplomacy.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#27. But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.
Pia Zadora
