Quotes About Flutes

#1. 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 over the massed strings will sound?

Daniel Dennett

#2. That beautiful girl, she was a universe, bearer of these words that rang like gongs, that tumbled like flutes made of human bones.

Janet Fitch

#3. 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 Kahn

#4. Jutta drags herself closer; she watches her brother with outsize eyes. A piano chases the violins. Then woodwinds. The strings sprint, woodwinds fluttering behind. More instruments join in. Flutes? Harps? The song races, seems to loop back over itself. "Werner?" Jutta whispers. He blinks;

Anthony Doerr

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Let no girl, no gun, no cards, no flutes, no violins, no dress, no tobacco, no laziness decoy you from your books.

David McCullough

#8. I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.

Zeresenay Alemseged

#9. I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#10. 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

#11. A flute with no holes is not a flute.

Matsuo Basho

#12. A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.

Chevy Chase

#13. 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

#14. The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

Theophrastus

#15. The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.

John Dryden

#16. The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

Plato

#17. Then, with an extended, falling glissando of disgust, the whole string section, plus flutes and piccolo, surged toward the brass, leaving the music critic and his deed - an early evening frites and mayonnaise on Oude Hoogstraat - illuminated under a lonely chandelier.

Ian McEwan

#18. It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#19. I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

Oscar Wilde

#20. They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best.

James Galway

#21. 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

#22. Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.

Brian Eno

#23. To fairy flutes, As the light advances, In square black boots The cabman dances.

J.B. Morton

#24. 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

#25. I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through.

Eckhart Tolle

#26. The wind plays the world like an instrument. Blows through trees like flutes. But trees won't grow in cement. And as heart beats bring percussion fallen trees bring repercussions. Cities play upon our souls like broken drums.

Saul Williams

#27. What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#28. I carry my flute around everywhere I go and pull it out. It actually becomes a panacea for me, for things that go on around me. It really gives me relief and calmness, tranquility.

Hubert Laws

#29. I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel: I am the impact of the bee Upon the blossom; in the tree I am the sap that shall reveal The leaf, the bloom that flows and flutes Up from the darkness through its roots.

Madison Cawein

#30. It is sweet to dance to violins
When love and life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is delicate and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air!

Oscar Wilde

#31. I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.

Hafez

#32. It may well be that an analysis of figures would reveal a law - the duration of a marriage is inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding. Or, to put it another way, any union celebrated with personalized toasting flutes is doomed.

Michael Foley

#33. Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes

Paul Hoffman

#34. Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses ...

Edward Abbey

#35. Don't you think it's a small mystery that birds can twitter so loudly that they can hear each other's song from several miles away? Those tiny bundles are like living flutes, playing non-stop on themselves.

Jostein Gaarder

#36. Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of the wind flutes that had filled their caves with music he could not possibly remember. It felt like home.

Laini Taylor

#37. I've always liked using flutes and clarinets. Any time I can use those, I'm really happy.

A.C. Newman

#38. Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.

Rumi

#39. The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.

Kabir

#40. The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer!

Rumi

#41. Kili and Fili rushed for their bags and brought back little fiddles; Dori, Nori, and Ori brought out flutes from somewhere inside their coats; Bombur produced a drum

J.R.R. Tolkien

#42. The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?

Rumi

#43. This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

Rabindranath Tagore

#44. The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.

James Galway