Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Graves

We're going to melt down all of ours down and make a glass parrot for the Brass Parrot. We'll hang it beside the cigarette machine.

Charles Ives

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

Tex Hall

We have to get down to the brass tacks. If this is going to move, we, as tribal leaders, have got to put a (settlement) figure in this bill. Right now, it's blank. We can't leave it blank.

Charles Dickens

You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

Buff Bradley

I was so excited (when Brass Hat had the lead in the deep stretch). He was proving he's one of the best in the world.

Gary Wright

I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

Scott Shane

One thing that in my reporting that I found and was amazed to find was that, as far as I could determine, neither high-level White House officials in the Bush administration nor even the top brass at the CIA even knew the history of water boarding when they approved it.

Janet Norwood

He got up and headed, he was going to go to the computer, and I said, 'No, it's not the computer. I could see the big brass buttons reflecting light (through the front door). That's a sight I'll never forget. There's something inside of me that still says to this day, if we just hadn't opened the door.

Frankie Dettori

I couldn't shake Brass Hat off. He was always a threat.

M. Wolfe

WFSU is incredibly lucky to offer top quality programming on FM, with a news and classical station, and on television,

Vince Paul

We feel that the genre of African dance it's not unlike the genre of French classical dance or modern dance it's simply a genre. It's not a novelty. It's become one of the standard art forms of dance.

Charles Rosen

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

John Wright

The people who enjoy classical music, opera, even classical ballet, would come to classical theatre if it were well-acted and imaginatively presented.

W. Hull

We still see the dominance of rap, R&B, alternative punk, and pop. But we are definitely seeing growth in jazz and classical music.

Nigel Kennedy

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.

Elizabeth Jagger

I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues.

Lawrence M. Krauss

No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball thrown from pitcher to catcher seems to take just one path, the one described by Newton's laws of motion. Yet at a microscopic level, the universe behaves quite differently.

Eric Whitacre

I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In many ways, it turned out to be an advantage. I was so green, so utterly naive about the nature of classical music, that I did things that made me look totally, deliberately unorthodox.

Chuck D.

We've always got a chip on our shoulder, they always say the offense has to pull us through. But in order to win games in the playoffs, we knew our defense had to step up.

John Hoch

When we were up seven at halftime, coach told us to keep playing our game. We knew we had to keep rolling and in the second half we just shot lights out.

Joyce Foreman

When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Chris Schwartz

When we were down early, I wasn't worried about it because I knew we were trying. It was just a matter of our shots going in. Then, when they started going in, (the Rough Riders) couldn't stop us.

Dave Klingel

When we were at the drawing for the tournament seeds last week, we were praying that we wouldn't have to face Meade. We didn't play well against them during the season and we knew they would be a tough team to face early in the tournament.

R. Ingram

When we were 1-6, all we focused on was that we were better than that. We knew it; we just had to prove it. We've come a long way and it's great to be back to .500 and to know we'll get a home game in the tournament.

John Tesh

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew my jazz background, suggested I try big-band music, so we spent a year experimenting with it in concert, and the audience reaction was really good.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Richard Kramer

What this document gives us is rare insight into the imponderable process of decision-making by which this most complex of quartet movements is made over into a work for piano four-hands.

Mark Smith

Unfortunately, I was hauling a piano on that one.

Alan Hovhaness

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

Al Jarreau

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

Al Jarreau

I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.

Cherry Jones

I went to see The Piano with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldnt focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.

Charlie Munger

Quoting Demosthenes, 'For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.' I would rather make money playing a piano in a whorehouse than arguing that no cost is incurred when employees are paid in stock options instead of cash. I am not kidding.

Charles Hazlewood

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

Chris Barber

A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.

Tom Freeman

We have to have a melody line. So if one of our sax players needs to stick with one part, maybe the trombone player will grab the melody from another score.

Peter Sullivan

I was familiar with her music, and I had complete faith in her ability. The piece is well-suited to the instrument. It exploits the many faces of the symphony: lyrical, fanfare and playful. It is very approachable. I think the trombone community will embrace it. I will be very surprised if it doesn't get other performances.

Colm Meaney

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

John Tesh

I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine who played trombone and a guy who played tuba, every Christmas we'd go out for three or four days beforehand and play Christmas carols on our horns.

Trombone Shorty

When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band.

David Baker

They were missing a trombone player and (Hughes) was hoping to have the chance to fill in, but unfortunately it didn't happen that night.

John Carlin

They gave you a string instrument - I got a violin. Gave it to me. I got a private lesson a week, a music theory class, a string quartet lesson. Then we all got together for the orchestra. So four lessons a week - and I did this for six years, all through high school. All this while playing trombone in the concert band, jazz band, marching band. And singing in the a cappella chorus and drama club. And on the side, I was in two rock bands, hack garage bands.

George Duke

They had too many classical piano players. I didn't have their chops. I couldn't keep up with them. But they also had a brass scholarship for trombone and they didn't have any trombone players. So I knew I could get that one!