Horns Quotes - Page 2

• I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

  Don Van Vliet

  Thinking, Play, Horny

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• You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Sarcastic, Wife, Horny

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.116, Pan Macmillan

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• Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn.

  Pete Waterman

  Technology, Numbers, Horny

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• I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.

  Bo Jackson

  Hate, Blow, People

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• The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Rainbow, Horny, Riding

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

  Desmond Tutu

  Soccer, Teamwork, Orchestra

  Desmond Tutu, John Allen (2011). “God Is Not A Christian”, p.50, Random House

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• So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.

  Charlie Hunter

  Player, Space, Horny

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• Even If I have two three days off, you still have to blow that horn. You have to keep up those chops... I have to warm up everyday for at least an hour.

  Louis Armstrong

  Blow, Two, Everyday

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• When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.

  Carla Bley

  Play, People, Horny

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• That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?

  Charlie Hunter

  Thinking, Issues, Focus

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• Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.

  Josh Billings

  Letting Go, Advice, Tails

  Josh Billings (1913). “Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised”

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• I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

  Dick Dale

  Play, Horny, Keyboards

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• When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's

  Billy Eckstine

  Birthday, Playing Music, Band

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• I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.

  Anton Seidl

  Mean, Simple, Horny

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.102, Parrot Press

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• If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

  Roger Zelazny

  Fall, Car, Survival

  Roger Zelazny (2016). “Madwand”, p.251, ibooks

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• We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

  Helen Fisher

  Animal, Rhinos, Porcupines

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  If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Horny, Ensemble, Want

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• Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.

  Propertius

  Fighting, Sheep, Horny

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• The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.

  William Henry Ashley

  Horny, Mountain, Bigs

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

  David Amram

  July, Issues, Horny

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• I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Moving, Athlete

  "Sir Roger Bannister". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2004.

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• Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn

  William Wordsworth

  Prayer, Blow, Sight

  "TheWorld Is Too Much with Us" l. 10 (1807)

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• Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.

  Jim Rohn

  Funny, Time, Light

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 06, 2013

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• I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters.

  Joe Hill

  Character, Thinking, Plot

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• Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Reason, Given, Obligation

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