“ Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos. ”
- Gustav Mahler- Copy
- 2.7K
“ For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me. ”
- Morton Feldman- Copy
- 319
“ You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds wrong. But some guys do it, and they think it's O.K., but not so! ”
- Jerome Richardson- Copy
- 866
“ Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent. ”
- Johann Gottfried Von Herder- Copy
- 3.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.2K
“ 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? ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
- 617
“ I got a kick out of having a big bankroll in my pocket. Even if I only made a couple hundred dollars, I'd always keep it in fives and tens so it'd look big. ”
- Mickey Cohen- Copy
- 3.8K
“ A strange thing has happened — while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
- 977
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