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'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness. — Simon McBurney

I would hate to be taken seriously. Serious people are always so grim and uptight that they make me want to dance naked on the lawn playing a flute. — Robert Anton Wilson

I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music. — R. Kelly

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

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

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini. — Francis Ford Coppola

Be empty
and weep with the fullness of the reed flute.
Be empty
and discover the mysteries of the reed pen. — Jalaluddin Rumi

The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box. — James Galway

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

May the honey-sweet flute music that flows from Lord Mukunda's lotus mouth fill me with bliss. — Rupa Goswami

Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing. — James Galway

The sarangi, the ney flute are pretty ancient instruments. — Howard Shore

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. — Kahlil Gibran

Let us play the flute of love to spread the music of peace, joy and happiness. — Debasish Mridha

Once you have heard the Indian Bamboo flute then everything else is just ordinary! — Osho

The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute. — Shawn Amos

Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? — Kahlil Gibran

The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers. — John Dryden

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

Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to faint all of the time. — Rachael Yamagata

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

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

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

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

Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn,
Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute,
Are half so sweet as tender human words. — Bryan Procter

It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Temple of Suma
hearing the unblown flute
in the deep shade of trees
sumadera ya / fukanu fue kiku / koshitayami — Matsuo Basho

Playing flute was the one thing I knew could make people see a human, not a monster. — Rachel Hartman

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

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

The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout. — Theophrastus

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

Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute. — Robert Jordan

And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute ... — Tom Stoppard

I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through. — Eckhart Tolle

The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe. — Hojo Soun

You say you're a pessimist, but I happen to know that you're in the habit of practicing your flute for two hours every evening. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

The heart-flute Knows how to charm the world. — Sri Chinmoy

Life is a living flute, yoga is the art of creating melody and rhythm in it. — Amit Ray

The Band advances to the cadence of the flute, and has no call for retreat. Its code is Stand and Die. — Steven Pressfield

I closed my eyes during a flute solo, wishing I could wrap the silvery sound around me like armor. — Jodi Meadows

Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.' — Simon McBurney

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