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#1 2008-12-10 13:27:09
- david
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flute quotes
found this interesting page. theres some pretty cool ones. sorry if its been posted already.
http://thecolliergroup.net/Flute_Quotes.pdf
david
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#2 2008-12-10 13:35:55
- edosan
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Re: flute quotes
Excellent!
Thanks, David.
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It takes effort to attain nothingness.
And then what do you have?
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#3 2008-12-11 16:00:27
- Moran from Planet X
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Re: flute quotes
david wrote:
"From the start, when it was the instrument of the wood-god Pan, the flute has been
associated with pure (some might say impure) energy. Its sound releases something naturally untamed, as if a squirrel were let loose in a church." -- Seamus Heaney
Mr. Heaney, being Irish, may have made the excusable error here of naming the instrument a 'flute' when indeed it was a pennywhistle.
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