Quotes About Brass Bands

#1. 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 public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this ... because ... I am a natural-born mountebank.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. 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.

Thomas Beecham

#3. [T]he piano was to Harlem what brass bands had been to New Orleans. The instrument represented conflicting possibilities -- a pathway for assimilating traditional highbrow culture, a calling card of lowbrow nightlife, a symbol of middle-class prosperity, or, quite simply, a means of making a living.

Ted Gioia

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

Thomas Beecham

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

Thomas Beecham

#6. She said no, Lark, Cole said, his eyes meeting Kelsey's. Kelsey felt her stomach flutter. And it
wasn't from nausea.

Maisey Yates

#7. The always popular notion that the United States is in "moral decline" (a phrase favored in the pulpits and the press of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) rests on the assumption that Americans used to be far more religious and should strive to return to their former fidelity.

Peter Manseau

#8. 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.

Louis Armstrong

#9. In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

David Dinkins

#10. I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that's had a full season run, but to actually be on one that's gotten picked up for a second season.

Benjamin Bratt

#11. We say cat tastes like chicken when, had we been weaned on kitten stew, we'd say chicken tastes like cat.

Jonathan Grimwood

#12. There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.

Winston Churchill

#13. I'm the only one that can be held accountable for the way my life turns out.

Colleen Hoover

#14. I am an emptiness for Thee to fill; my soul a cavern for Thy sea

George MacDonald

#15. I'm sorry, Eve. I love you. I'm not letting you do this."
She screamed and battered harder. "You love me? You asshole! Let me go!

Rachel Caine

#16. In his experience with women, it was difficult to recover once things began to go wrong
once they had unreasonably decided that you were a person with whom they were not under any circumstances ever going to have sex.

John Lanchester

#17. 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 second trumpet in the Tuxedo Brass Band
and they had some funeral marches that would just touch your heart, they were so beautiful.

Louis Armstrong