Brass bands are part of my upbringing. Brass band records were among the first records I listened to. — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation. — Horace Copy Share Image
Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean. — Horace Copy Share Image
If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down. — John Cotton Copy Share Image
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. — William Shakespeare 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
When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when… — Zhuangzi 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
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
The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound… — Illinois Jacquet Copy Share Image
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 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 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
Damn flowers. Nice kids, the ones who skated out and gave us them. But the flowers, the stem fell off. I stepped… — Phil Esposito Copy Share Image
My father died very suddenly at sixty-three. Just dropped dead. For a long time afterward, I'd ask myself, Why didn't I ask… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
As President, I will institute a procedure in which all convicted criminals will have this brass ring will be surgically implanted into… — Bob Backlund Copy Share Image
What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I regard the amount of brainpower going into money management as a national scandal. When some idiot would get rich, they'd say,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are -… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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
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
Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble. — William Drummond Copy Share Image
If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
But fame is theirs - and future days On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise; Shall tell - when cold neglect is… — Philip Freneau Copy Share Image
There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as… — Melanie Griffith Copy Share Image
'Liberty Brass' is a small machine that unfolds in a single unpunctuated wave, which is interrupted by the rotating sign, the refrain.… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I've had so much success. I had something to say, I got to say it, people heard it, and they agreed. That's… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image