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Quotes About Flute

My father started me out on the flute and I began going to teachers.
~ Henry Mancini
'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.
~ Simon McBurney
I remember my sisters, they loved a movie called 'The Naked Island.' And the flute was actually playing the main theme. A Japanese movie. A beautiful movie from 1961. I remember hearing this music with a flute many, many times a day at home.
~ Alexandre Desplat
The soft complaining flute,In dying notes, discoversThe woes of hopeless lovers.
~ John Dryden
There was a Young Lady of Bute, Who played on a silver-gilt flute; She played several jigs, To her uncle's white pigs, That amusing Young Lady of Bute.
~ Edward Lear
You say you're a pessimist, but I happen to know that you're in the habit of practicing your flute for two hours every evening.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
flute music in the mountains is always enchanting.
~ Ruskin Bond
I want to brush my teeth," she said. Before she knew what was happening, Thatcher leaned over and kissed her. Very quickly, very softly. "You're fine," he said. "I detect a trace of vinaigrette, but it's really very pleasant." He held the flute out to her, and as it gave her something to do other than fall over backward, she accepted it.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
My training in music has been very eclectic - as first a flute player from classical chamber music to jazz, Greek, Brazilian and African music to contemporary concert music.
~ Alexandre Desplat
Courtiers were supposed to sound musical when they spoke, their laughter like a harp chord and their sneezes like notes on a flute
~ Sarah Beth Durst
Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk round my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver.
~ Anthony Burgess
Music has been a part of the cultural expression of virtually every culture ever studied. It may even extend into prehistoric times. A 35,000-year-old flute made from bird bone has been discovered,
~ John Medina
While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning how to play a new tune on the flute. "What will be the use of that?" he was asked. "To know this tune before dying.
~ Emil Cioran
Mientras le preparaban la cicuta, Sócrates aprendía un aria para flauta. '¿De qué te va a servir?', le preguntaron. 'Para saberla antes de morir'.
~ Emil Cioran
Temple of Suma— hearing the unblown flute in the deep shade of trees sumadera ya / fukanu fue kiku / koshitayami
~ Bash? Matsuo
I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer.
~ James Galway
Jazz flute's funny. And I'm a big Latin music fan, Tito Puente, Tina Cruz, all that stuff.
~ Genndy Tartakovsky
I can play the flute. Music was my favourite A-level, and I used to love composing my and stylising my voice to sound like 90's singing sensation Tori Amos.
~ Erin O'Connor
The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
~ Kabir
Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining a flute and then making that sound materialize. That's easy!
~ Christopher Young
H]e was soon to be head clerk; it was time to settle down. So he gave up his flute, exalted sentiments, and poetry; for every bourgeois in the flush of his youth, were it but for a day, a moment, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of lofty enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of sultanas; every notary bears within him the debris of a poet.
~ Gustave Flaubert
So he gave up his flute, exalted sentiments, and poetry; for every bourgeois in the flush of his youth, were it but for a day, a moment, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of lofty enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of sultanas; every notary bears within him the debris of a poet.
~ Gustave Flaubert
As the steps and the passage grew broader, I heard another sound, the thin, whining mockery of a feeble flute; and suddenly there spread out before me the boundless vista of an inner world–a vast fungous shore litten by a belching column of sick greenish flame and washed by a wide oily river that flowed from abysses frightful and unsuspected to join the blackest gulfs of immemorial ocean.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
But Rose lifted her champagne flute in a toast. "It is precisely our unfortunate characteristics that make any of us interesting—wouldn't you say, ladies? Those of us, I might add, who are interesting." Maneuvering Kate away from the gaggle, Rose led her through the gardens and down to the river.
~ Joy Jordan-Lake