"Never look at the brass - it only…" — Richard Strauss
"Never look at the brass - it only encourages them."
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12 Quotes by Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss has 12 quotes on this site.
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Never look at the trombones, you'll just encourage them.
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Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to…
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The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.
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I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's…
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Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung.
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He'd be better off shoveling snow.
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I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
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Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too…
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Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.
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The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
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Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
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More Brass Quotes
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one of 109 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
— Thomas Beecham
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I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the…
— George Clooney
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Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
— William Shakespeare
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In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some…
— Mark Twain
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Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money... I used to love traveling on the trains…
— Ray Liotta
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I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded…
— Betty Smith
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At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from…
— Jesse L. Greenstein
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If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them…
— John Cotton
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Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums,…
— Unknown Author
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Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
— Lord Chesterfield
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