Flute Quotations

I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

After I came out of surgery - I was in the hospital for five weeks - I found that I gravitated toward very gentle sounds: chant music, solo bamboo flute sounds, a laid-back record of my own called 'Inside.' And the music became a very real part of my recovery process.

Even back when I played 'straight-ahead,' I mixed it up. I played some free-form, classical adaptations, solo flute stuff. It was New Age in its own way.

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.

I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer.

I used to play flute and clarinet at school, and although I wasn't thinking about making a living or getting a pay cheque, I already knew I was going to play music all my life.

Until this time in my life Julius Baker was one of the most admired names in the flute world.

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!

I am just another customer as far as they are concerned and when I order a flute I have to wait 9 months to a year until it is delivered. I do not ask for special treatment and I don't get it either.

I always play the flute with the head-joint which comes on it.

My wife Jeane has been listening to me play the flute nearly everyday for the last 22 years or more. She thinks I sound the best on gold but that the other metals have different qualities.

We can say that the Flute of God is actually that great sound current which soul rides upon in its journey to Its true home.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

When you are playing your Long tones, you need to have a certain amount of tension to ensure that you flute is not moving around while you play.

This big part flies off on the floor. The other part goes like this and lands in my foot! Standing up! It's standing in my foot! Right in the side of my foot. The flute glass. I think I'm like in one of my own pictures.

There is no way Top Wind can think that I am going to breeze in and buy a flute, so I can truthfully say that the flute I bought from them was intended for the general market.

I believe if a flute is truly worth anything the maker should sell it and the player should buy it.

I began playing the flute during the summer before my sixth grade year when I was 11 years old, and instantly fell in love with it.

(The flute is) an instrument that doesn't lend itself very readily to rock music. It's a gentle and sensitive instrument. To make it work at rock 'n roll levels, you really have to push it pretty hard.

The guitar and flute duet was very fascinating. You don't generally see guitar and flute playing together so I really liked how it came together and blended so well. I enjoyed it a lot.

The first flute I ever had was a Henry Potter wooden 5-keyed flute.