36 Brass Quotes for You to Enjoy

Never look encouragingly at the brass, except with a short glance to give an important cue. Richard Strauss

Important Give Except Never Glance Look Cue Brass Short

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. Elizabeth I

Fair Shines Brass Gold Ignorant

Super-success is not for everyone, and you will endure weeks and months and years of hard work, obstacles, failures, victories, pain, and any manner of 'negative' experiences to reap the rewards of success, drink from the golden goblet, own the brass ring. Dan Pena

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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

Music Section Classical Hot Dropped Like Fresh Got Smooth Sound Brass Eggs Being Patterns Should Grease

In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance. Amy Waldman

You Met Jews Memorial Some Somewhat Outside Taken Putting Stumbling Houses Were Blocks Been Huge Germany Brass Official Artist Controversial Then Away Resistance

I was curious about experimenting with different colors - kind of like having an expanded orchestra. Suddenly, instead of just writing for strings, you can add bassoon and oboe and brass. I like these extreme differences in sounds right next to each other. Caroline Shaw

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Of course, to be WWE world champion is definitely on my list. Anybody who is not reaching for that proverbial brass ring is doing something wrong if they're in the WWE. Cesaro

Champion World Definitely Ring Something Wrong Reaching Course WWE Doing Proverbial Brass List Anybody Who World Champion

If the most deeply interconnected individuals can exemplify the behaviors that your official top brass sets out, then the rest of the organization will follow suit. Chris Fussell

Organization Will Rest Sets Top Out Follow Individuals Most Brass Official Behaviors Interconnected Then Your Deeply Suit

Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself. Eberhard Weber

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. Gary Wright

First Think Other Keyboards Machines Kind He Stuff Like Drum Also Well Stevie Stevie Wonder Were His Lot Wonder Brass Artist Really Use Used Who Whole Ever Thing Things Started Album

Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring. Jason Calacanis

Out Ring Selling Brass Getting Anymore

When I was still in the Yardbirds, our producer, Mickie Most, would always try to get us to record all these horrible songs. During one session, we recorded 'Ten Little Indians,' an extremely silly song that featured a truly awful brass arrangement. Jimmy Page

Song Try Our Extremely Would Indians Record Horrible Silly Recorded Ten Featured Songs Most Always Arrangement Still Truly Brass Get Little Us Producer Awful Session

Brass has a very distinctive sound. It's delicate but powerful, but it's also melancholic and plaintive. Johann Johannsson

Distinctive Delicate Powerful Also Sound Very Brass

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping. Kate Walsh

Work Me Waiting Coffee Painting Television Ring Tables About Between Reaching Houses Were Surviving Brass In-Between Theater Film Serving

I remember coming up in the business and seeing how the grind turned some executives into grizzled cynics. And I vowed to never become that guy. I have always believed it's incumbent upon network brass to bring a wide-eyed optimism to the chairs they rent. Talent deserves that. And frankly, the jobs are just no fun otherwise. Kevin Reilly

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As a villain or a superhero, as a good guy or a bad guy, I think I can do, at this point, 'Okay, whatever you need boss. Is this what you need? Great, I will grab the brass ring doing it.' Lana

I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story just beyond my reach. To grasp that brass ring I need to continue to fine-tune my talents. Michael Welch

Trump Tower is no ordinary property: It is the jewel in Donald Trump's brass crown. Nell Scovell

Property Crown Tower Trump Brass Donald Ordinary Jewel

The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted. Patrick Gordon

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