Quotes About Brass

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

Success has a million musical nuances. Failure is only the monotonous banging of a brass gong.

They made figures of brass, and tried to induce souls to indwell them. In some accounts we read that they succeeded; Friar Bacon was credited with one such Homunculus; so was Albertus Magnus, and, I think, Paracelsus. He had, at least, a devil in his long sword 'which taught him all the cunning pranks of past and future mountebanks

He was a golden boy in a world of brass and tin.

That one has more brass than an orchestra and more nerve than a sore tooth. So I sincerely doubt I make her nervous.

I've got a crooked elbow and I generally say my prayers with one leg on a brass rail.

Like so many American men, Hayduke loved guns, the touch of oil, the acrid smell of burnt powder, the taste of brass, bright copper alloys, good cutlery, all things well made and deadly.

The Philistines took him [Samson], and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron.

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations.

and so, I went to work on a brazen head that was going to tell me how to encircle England with a wall of brass, to keep out marauding Danes and other riffraff.

A private organisation may not have sufficient apple or other essential ingredients in its monthly stock, but its top brass will only talk about individual's performance pie i.e. achievement vs target of apple-pie sales in the meeting.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

Their song reminds me of a child's neighborhood rallying cry—ee-ock-ee—with a heartfelt warble at the end. But it is their call that is especially endearing. The towhee has the brass and grace to call, simply and clearly, tweet. I know of no other bird that stoops to literal tweeting.

You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees.

I grew up listening to the Neville Brothers and the Rebirth Brass Band.

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

There's a Tesco on the sacred ground Where I pulled her knickers down While Judas took his measly brass And St. Anthony gazed in awe at Christ Down on Rain Street

I do not surrender my treasures, nor do I share them. The fortune of my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

gossiping, backbiting courtiers, and as he closed the mahogany door behind him and the heavy brass latch clacked into place, the room erupted into a dozen scheming conversations. Power was like a magnet, keeping everything rigid and straight and proper. But without the magnet, it all collapsed into disorganized scrap.

If we work upon marble, it will perish. If we work upon brass, time will efface it. But if we work upon immortal minds, and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving upon tablets which no time will efface but will brighten and brighten to all eternity." I

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