Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands? — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others. — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
“These brass hats have one great advantage in their favor. If we listen to them, and do what they want us to… — James Douglass Copy Share Image
Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire; The World is past its Infant Age: Arms and Honour, Arms and Honour, Set the Martial Mind… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they… — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was… — R. Carlos Nakai Copy Share Image
“We parked in back and walked down the stairs with their polished brass railings, past the old-fashioned kitchen. We could see the… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The heavens are not filled with hostility. The sky does not express a frown. When I look up I do not contemplate… — John Henry Jowett Copy Share Image
... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Fate handed Barack Obama the best of all political gifts - a dyspeptic, surly, spiteful opposition on the one hand and very… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
With me, growing up in a theater family and having them be so supportive, from the jump, and being a part of… — Jeremy Piven Copy Share Image
Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
![“I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.” quote by Quincy Jones](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/373/quincy-jones-2731_brass_i-got-to-trumpet-finally-that-s-why-i-lo_245935.jpg)
![“As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in Heaven playing second trumpet in the Tuxedo Brass Band -- and they had some funeral marches that would just touch your heart, they were so beautiful.” quote by Louis Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/332/louis-armstrong-7258_band_as-many-bands-as-you-heard-in-new-orlean_102795.jpg)
![“... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of those candidates [for the ministry]." He said he didn't know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was…” quote by Anna Julia Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8bd/anna-julia-cooper-14164_arcs_a-girl-one-day-flared-out-and-told-the-p_594696.jpg)
