Brass Quote by Richard Strauss Download Open image “Never look encouragingly at the brass, except with a short glance to give an important cue.” — Richard Strauss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brass Important Look Never Short
I remember that I started playing brass - not so much because I had a calling but because I thought it looked cool. — Max Martin Copy Share Image
Brass has a very distinctive sound. It's delicate but powerful, but it's also melancholic and plaintive. — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes. — Claude Debussy 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
I like to hear the brass vibrate in the sound, not the reed. I like a dark sound, which is contrary to what just… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a… — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play. — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm. — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch? — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect. — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end. — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud. — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen. — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
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 echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We… — Anais Nin Copy Share
As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands? — Thomas Beecham 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 liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it strong as iron-bound brass, or gold and adamant together mixed. Don't think I am unaware, some startled deer to stand transfixed by hunter's horns. It's she who should take care, for when she strikes, my heart will make a sound so beautiful and… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money... I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town.… — Ray Liotta 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 him to play golf more? Why didn't I spend more time with him? But when you're off trying to get the brass ring, you forget and overlook those little things. It gives you a certain amount of regret… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the first lasted him from night to morning, indicating a sound body and a mind free from care; but his master, being unable to sleep himself awakened him, saying, "I am amazed, Sancho, at the torpor… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share
Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster:… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have… — Mark Twain 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… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor… — Horace Copy Share Image