Matsuo Basho
Poet
"A flute with no holes is not a flute."
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Flutes
26 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody."
Marcel Proust
Novelist
"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."
Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer!"
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"The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting."
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"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."
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"Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute."
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"I was a bit of a tomboy, so I played softball and basketball. Then I was also a cheerleader. And I played flute too."
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"This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new."
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