Quotes About The French Horn

#1. Orsini and one of his fellow conspirators were guillotined, and an accomplice called Carlo di Rudio was transported to Devil's Island, the notorious French prison camp in French Guiana. He escaped and later fought alongside General Custer at Little Big Horn. True to form, he survived.

Stephen Clarke

#2. China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not necessarily true that we know exactly what is best for the internal structure of China.

Henry A. Kissinger

#3. I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

Norman Wisdom

#4. When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

#5. Faith seems to grab people and not let go, but hope is a double-crosser. It can beat it on you anytime; it's your job to dig in your heels and hang on. Must be nice to have hope in your pocket, like loose change you could jingle through your fingers.

Judy Blundell

#6. For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth.

Joyce Carol Oates

#7. The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#8. He turned around to see the bass drum popping and the horn sections pointing their instruments to the balconies and sending glorious notes to the rooftops.

Hunter Murphy

#9. One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?

Franz Schubert

#10. I love the French horn.

Vanessa Williams

#11. After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

Quincy Jones

#12. Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.

Jim Coleman

#13. Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

David Amram

#14. Some folks are happier not being saved.

Lisa Kleypas

#15. I played French horn, and I certainly do miss it. I miss it. I wish I had the time to keep up with it. It's like exercising: You have to keep it up, especially the muscles in your lips to deal with the French horn.

Chuck Todd

#16. fluorescent bulbs were the result of a multimillion-dollar program specially engineered to offer the most hopeless light possible.

Marcus Sakey

#17. Wife: I want to have a child.
Husband: I can't imagine bringing a child into this messed-up world.
Wife: That's exactly the reason we should do it. We need to bring something good into this world to balance out the bad.

Matt Kindt

#18. Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one and cornu,a horn. A fabulous animal resembling a horse with one horn.

Peter S. Beagle

#19. I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.

Dick Van Dyke

#20. We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough ... You're worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here, your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.

Oprah Winfrey

#21. Oyin Da's mind is as elegant as a French horn, thoughts moving in whorls and evoking fresh mint leaves.

Tade Thompson

#22. The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

Dag Hammarskjold

#23. I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.

Wynton Marsalis

#24. Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.

Ewan McGregor

#25. Enthusiasm is the DNA of making things happen.

Danielle LaPorte

#26. If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.

Mason Cooley

#27. I'm jealous as fuck," he said, his voice rough. "That's not really my thing, but it's the truth. I don't much like the idea of some other man touchin' your sweet ass, and if one of them tries to stick his cock into that pretty little cunt of yours, I'm gonna cut it off.

Joanna Wylde