All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.
I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers. [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]
Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb." So I piped with merry cheer; "Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped; he wept to hear.
My father started me out on the flute and I began going to teachers.
The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.
The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?
I can play the flute. Music was my favourite A-level, and I used to love composing my and stylising my voice to sound like 90's singing sensation Tori Amos.
When I was seven years old I played the flute, then by 11 I quit being a musician and got into Djing.
When I was signing up for the University of Southern California's music program, I flipped a coin to decide my major. If it came up heads, it would be flute - tails would be voice.
The flute is a weird instrument, especially when played solo.
Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.
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.
My training in music has been very eclectic - as first a flute player from classical chamber music to jazz, Greek, Brazilian and African music to contemporary concert music.
I can play piano, classical flute, guitar, bass and I'm OK on drums.
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!
I am classically trained in piano, flute, and voice.
I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
Some people say 'flutist.' Others say 'flautist.' I just say 'flute player.' That's what I was.
Basically, I like to pick up my flute, which is a pretty instrument, and play pretty on it.
Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.
