Bagpipes Quotes

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

I love going to Scotland.

When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

I really got into Gaelic music and the whole sound of it, and I got to go to Scotland.

One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns.

My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.

Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some sort of drone instrument, and there's always percussion.

When I hear the bagpipes, it makes the hairs on my neck stand on end. It always makes me weep.

I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.

Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.

I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say — yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.

I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.

My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It'll bring tears to your eyes.

When I was 14, I was 5th in the world playing bagpipes - that's how I got the name Roddy the Piper, and then, you know, eventually it just became 'Roddy Piper.'

Bagpipes is a woodwind instrument, so you have to warm it up. But in a wrestling dressing room? You've got to be kidding me.

Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

Scotland is a picturesque country where the people are friendly yet completely incomprehensible. Also, the national delicacy is a sheep's stomach filled with its liver, lungs, and heart.

There is magic in Scotland. It's country with a lot of pride and bravery. I feel lucky to have been born into that.

If the Scottish want to break away, I shall stand on Hadrian's Wall with a teary handkerchief, and say: 'Good riddance to the lot of you, and take your stupid bagpipes with you.'

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.