Brass Section Quotes

#1. The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.

Illinois Jacquet

#2. MAMA (Quietly, woman to woman)
He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain ...
RUTH (Biting her lip, lest her own pride explode in front of Mama)
Yes, Lena.

Lorraine Hansberry

#3. An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

Jeff Cooper

#4. Pizza. It'll cure whatever ails you.

Janice Thompson

#5. When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they're going to wreck.

Jeff Gordon

#6. Then, with an extended, falling glissando of disgust, the whole string section, plus flutes and piccolo, surged toward the brass, leaving the music critic and his deed - an early evening frites and mayonnaise on Oude Hoogstraat - illuminated under a lonely chandelier.

Ian McEwan

#7. You're going to come across a lot of shitty band, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone of those people call you names beacause of what you look like or they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherf*****, stick up your middle finger, and scream F*** YOU!

Gerard Way

#8. To assume that wealth or sexuality or the usage of power, any of these things are not void in nature, gives them a reality they don't actually have.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Though the urge to hurry was beginning to beat through my brain, I knew that was the one thing I couldn't do. Not of I wanted to save lives.

Keri Arthur

#10. Everyone on the Internet is sad. Why else would they be on the Internet?

Frankie Cosmos

#11. I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used

Alexander Stepanov

#12. My idea for the Jamison Project was rather like a pickup company. The idea was to give the dancers a taste of the menu. Today, dancers need to try as many companies as possible without having a drop-dead loyalty to me or anyone else. They like to have the leeway to go their own way.

Judith Jamison

#13. The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#14. The romantic vision she'd held of her marriage where the two of them came first and children, no matter whose they were, came after that relationship had disappeared, and she had no idea where to find it.

Sarah Jo Smith