If bullshit was music, that fellow would be a brass band.

When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader…

— Trombone Shorty

we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few…

— Gene Tierney

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

— Johann Johannsson

Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up in one…

— Tom Piazza

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

— Charles Ives

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

— Trombone Shorty

It's very common in Iceland, this music-making and artistic expression by non-professionals. The brass band tradition is not as big, but there are choirs…

— Johann Johannsson

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…

— Louis Armstrong

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box,…

— Jay-Z

There are so many artists these days that are trying to imitate other artists and go for a certain style; there's a lot of…

— Mister Lies

I grew up right in the heart of Treme, so it was a real music neighborhood, and there was a bunch of bands like…

— Trombone Shorty

I didn't mean for it to cause such a furor, but I was the first guy to ever do the national anthem with a…

— Jose Feliciano

As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?

— Thomas Beecham

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Anais Nin