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Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes.
Herb Alpert Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. Thomas Beecham Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. Elizabeth I He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass. Horace His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. Robert Burns I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful. Betty Smith If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down. John Cotton In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind. Charles Ives Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass. Ralph Waldo Emerson Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass. Herb Alpert 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 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 Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt. Marcus V. Pollio Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. Thomas Hood Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior. Mimi Sheraton 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 Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current. Laurence Sterne You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass. Ben Harper |
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