I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap
Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.
My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.
A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.
I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through.
Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.
The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.
They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best.
The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.
A flute with no holes is not a flute.
It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.
The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.
The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.
...and for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute...
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.
Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.
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.
What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!
The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.
There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.
This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.
The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer!
Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.
The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?