James Galway Quotes (35 Quotes)

I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

Just in case you think I play only precious metal flutes, let me tell you that I have a silver plated student model with a silver head and it is excellent.

Each time I come home form a tour I get several of my flutes out and play them.

The year 1984 was one of the great years in my life being the year I married Jeanne.

It never is but with a great amount of practice you can overcome your concert platform nerves.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.

You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.

I never fail to be amazed by the great number of people who do not practice scales and arpeggios, the very bricks and mortar of our everyday repertoire.

Until this time in my life Julius Baker was one of the most admired names in the flute world.

Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.

What a lot of players do not realize is that you have to learn by feel what the lips are doing and not by looking.

Being unprepared heightens nerves.

Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there.

I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.

There is no way Top Wind can think that I am going to breeze in and buy a flute, so I can truthfully say that the flute I bought from them was intended for the general market.

It is normal to be nervous.

What ever you play, I hope you enjoy playing it as much as I have enjoyed playing all of these flutes over my career.

I always play the flute with the head-joint which comes on it.

He was the outstanding musical genius of all time, when you think of how much he wrote and how long he lived.

Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.

I do agree that playing an etude with a metronome is a good idea.

Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.

I have always bought modern flutes and enjoyed playing them.

The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.

I do not see scales as abstract.

You cannot prepare enough for anything.

I believe if a flute is truly worth anything the maker should sell it and the player should buy it.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

My wife Jeane has been listening to me play the flute nearly everyday for the last 22 years or more. She thinks I sound the best on gold but that the other metals have different qualities.

It is my method to apply tension at all times.

I am just another customer as far as they are concerned and when I order a flute I have to wait 9 months to a year until it is delivered. I do not ask for special treatment and I don't get it either.

By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.