Bands Quote by Thomas Beecham

I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what…

— Thomas Beecham

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

— Thomas Beecham

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

Damn flowers. Nice kids, the ones who skated out and gave us them. But the flowers, the stem fell off. I stepped right on…

— Phil Esposito

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

They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British…

— George Bernard Shaw

I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at…

— Michael Parkinson

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

As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to be around…

— Louis Armstrong

As fog moved to the mainland I heard a flock of birds fly over. They sounded like a dress rustling, a dress being unfastened…

— Gretel Ehrlich