Brass Quotes · Page 3

Never look encouragingly at the brass, except with a short glance to give an important cue.

— Richard Strauss

Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

— Chanakya

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

— Elizabeth I

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.

— Peter Kreeft

If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.

— Richard Strauss

Trump Tower is no ordinary property: It is the jewel in Donald Trump's brass crown.

— Nell Scovell

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

— Horace

You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

— Sandra Lee

Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the…

— Leigh Hunt

Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass,…

— Anonymous

Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection!

— Rick Riordan

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I,…

— Ben Harper

I've grown up in the Treme, and I played in a bunch of brass bands. My brother, James Andrews, had a brass…

— Trombone Shorty

There never seems to be any trouble brewing around a bar until a woman puts that high heel over the brass rail.…

— Humphrey Bogart

I just remember watching 'Brass Eye' and being so utterly blown away by the scope of it and how much it managed…

— Edgar Wright

I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story…

— Michael Welch

My favorite lineup is just a trio, because then every night you can improvise and change the repertoire. Keyboards and brass can…

— Rory Gallagher

There are many ways of inducing sleep--the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge…

— Laurence Sterne

In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men…

— Virginia Woolf

I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle…

— Scott Turow

By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong…

— Edward Albee

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and…

— Anais Nin

As fog moved to the mainland I heard a flock of birds fly over. They sounded like a dress rustling, a dress…

— Gretel Ehrlich

Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a…

— Miguel de Cervantes

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

— Charles Ives

Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

— Horace

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

— Horace

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

— William Shakespeare

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

— John Cotton

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

— John Dryden

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass,

— Marge Piercy

“And although I wish his heart were pure gold, I guess I've always known that it's more of the brass variety.”

— Alecia Whitaker

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

— Horace

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

— Lord Chesterfield

Brass bands are part of my upbringing. Brass band records were among the first records I listened to.

— Johann Johannsson

Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.

— Mae West

I've got so much brass up my ass that I can play the Star Spangled Banner. -Capt. Howard

— Bad Boys 2

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you’re in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners.

— George Clooney

Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass.

— George Carlin