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Bagpipe Quotes


The related Northumbrian Pipes disturb the peace of Northern England, but they are held in check by famous rapper and skilled bowman Robin in da 'Hood.

The Brazilians call the bagpipe gaita de foles, which is Portuguese for "screams of the tortured monkey".

"The best way to play the bagpipes? With a penknife." - Connor Hogan

"Bring not bagpipes to a man in trouble," - WC Fields.

"Bagpipes are the lost connection between noise and music," - Jim Davis

"I firmly believe that distance adds enchantment to the bagpipes" - WB Yeats.

"Definition of a 'gentleman' - someone who knows how to play the bagpipes but doesn't," - Ronnie Corbett.

"The Irish invented the bagpipes as a joke and gave them to the Scottish, they still haven't found out," - Denis Leary.

"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 object never equaled the purity of sound achieved by the pig." - Alfred Hitchcock

"Some men there are love not a gaping pig; some, that are mad if they behold a cat; and others, when the bagpipe sings...cannot contain their urine." -William Shakespeare

"If thy neighbour offend thee, give each of his children bagpipes." - Old Scottish Proverb.

"Kevin Ross plays the bagpipes, and they in turn have devoured his soul" -Jack "Smack-Attack" Johnson

"No man has EVER learned to play the confounded instrument!" Grytpipe Thyyne on The Goon Show

"Why do bagpipers march while they play? It's harder to hit a moving target." -Not You

"Golf is a game invented by the same people who think that's music coming out of a bagpipe." -Lee Trevino

"Thank God there's no smell." -Oscar Wilde

"What's the difference between a bagpipe and a chainsaw? You can tune a chainsaw." - Trad.


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