Bagpipes famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
-- Jack Finney -
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.
-- Oliver Herford -
Initially, when I was making the bagpipes and reed instruments, it was different from the other instruments. In terms of sound itself, it may not be different, but in performing with it, it was a necessity to build it if I was going to perform and make scores with it. By making the instruments, it helped me compose the way I want.
-- Yoshi Wada -
I got into one of the Scottish classical styles called piobaireachd, which is a very old music that started around the 1700s or something. I really got into this music. After that, I started to compose bagpipe music in my notations. Then I started building bagpipes by myself, and then I started to perform with the instrument myself in the 1980s.
-- Yoshi Wada -
The Scots are subsidy junkies whingeing like a trampled bagpipe as they wait for their next fix of English taxpayers' money.
-- Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley