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
You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees. — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine. — Ouida 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
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
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
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
Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
With a lot of action scores, you're competing with a lot of noise. Say there's a big explosion: the music would conventionally… — Steven Price 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
... [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
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
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
Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who… — Denise Caruso Copy Share Image
I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the… — Jon Tester Copy Share Image
Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection! — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass. — Horace Copy Share Image
I just remember watching 'Brass Eye' and being so utterly blown away by the scope of it and how much it managed… — Edgar Wright 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 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/quotes/img-quotes/332/louis-armstrong-7258_band_as-many-bands-as-you-heard-in-new-orlean_102795.jpg)
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/373/quincy-jones-2731_brass_i-got-to-trumpet-finally-that-s-why-i-lo_245935.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/quotes/img-quotes/8bd/anna-julia-cooper-14164_arcs_a-girl-one-day-flared-out-and-told-the-p_594696.jpg)
