Flutes Quotes

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

  Kabir

  Sound, Infinite

  Kabir (2010). “Songs of Kabir”, p.92, The Floating Press

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

  Theophrastus

  Sound, Gout, Cures

  Quoted in David Pickering Brewer'sTwentieth-Century Music (1994).

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart...It's easier to play if it's right from your heart. You get the tone, and the fingers will follow.

  Eddie Cahill

  Book, Writing, Heart

  17 Copy quote

• 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

  Love, Music, Broken Heart

  140 Copy quote

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

  James Galway

  Learning, Way, Talent

  10 Copy quote

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

  Plato

  Moral, Instruments, Exciting

  9 Copy quote
• 

  Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.

  Yoko Ono

  Mirrors, Broken, Razors

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• The heart-flute Knows how to charm the world.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Music, Heart, World

  7 Copy quote

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

  Rumi

  Breaths

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.217, Penguin UK

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers.
  [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Moving, Blow

  4 Copy quote

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flow, Holes, Breaths

  17 Copy quote

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

  Rumi

  Play, Felicity, Melody

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.

  James Galway

  Real, Eugenics, Self

  56 Copy quote

• The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Player, Doe

  19 Copy quote

• Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.

  Robert Jordan

  Pigs, Play, Teach

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.232, Macmillan

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  James Galway

  Different, Suits, Hard

  7 Copy quote

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

  John Dryden

  Dying, Complaining, Woe

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.141

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

  Rumi

  Music, Echoes, Mountain

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.39, Lulu.com

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love thee as I love the tone
  Of some soft-breathing flute
  Whose soul is wak'd for me alone,
  When all beside is mute.

  Eliza Acton

  Famous Love, Breathing, Soul

  Eliza Acton (1826). “Poems”, p.110

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Two

  45 Copy quote

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

  Hafez

  Integrity, Moving, Christ

  26 Copy quote

• The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.

  Ian Anderson

  Player, Guitar, Numbers

  6 Copy quote

• I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

  Ian Anderson

  Happiness, Being Happy, Player

  52 Copy quote

• 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

  Inspire, Something New, Decades

  Interview with the Financial Times, 2002.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Chevy Chase

  Holes, Danish, Donuts

  15 Copy quote