Flutes Quotes

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Plato

  Moral, Instruments, Exciting

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

  James Galway

  Learning, Way, Talent

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  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.

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• 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

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flow, Holes, Breaths

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• 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

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

  Hafez

  Integrity, Moving, Christ

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• 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

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

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Player, Doe

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

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Woods, Reeds, Empty

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• 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

  Sweet, Life And Love, Air

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Ballade of reading Gaol”, p.6, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• And if there come the singers, and the dancers and the flute players - buy of their gifts also. For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and fod for your soul.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Player, Dancer

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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

  Chevy Chase

  Holes, Danish, Donuts

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• 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.

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• When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

  Khalil Gibran

  Music, Stupid, Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Sound, Strange, Glory

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• 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

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• Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.

  James Galway

  Play, Singing, Should

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

  James Galway

  Different, Suits, Hard

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• 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

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• The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

  Steve Lacy

  Song, Voice, Elements

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