Brass Quotes

Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.

It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words.

It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance.

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.

Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up in one of the neighborhoods, it’s as if the audience—dancing, singing to the refrains, laughing—is part of the band.

Establish liberty on a rock of brass.

As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to be around 13 or 14 years old, they took me off the bugle and put me in the little brass band.

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass.

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

I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.

Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.

I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

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 people whistling will do the job.

Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.

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

If only there was a way I could cover my tension with the scent of eau de brass valls instead.

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

If you’re in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners.

I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this.