Top Brass Quotes
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
Charles Ives
If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.
John Cotton
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
All Brass Quotes
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
64% of people like this quote
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 
59% of people like this quote
In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
Charles Ives 
57% of people like this quote
If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.
John Cotton 
57% of people like this quote
Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.
Laurence Sterne 
55% of people like this quote
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 
55% of people like this quote
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 
55% of people like this quote
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 
55% of people like this quote
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 
52% of people like this quote
Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.
Marcus V. Pollio 
51% of people like this quote

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