Horns Quotes - Page 6

• Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

  Henry Rollins

  Hair, Play, One Day

  4 Copy quote

• One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement, of auto horn-all of these are urban essences; all are negations of wilderness.

  Benton MacKaye

  Essence, Civilization, Pavement

  13 Copy quote

• I'm interested in finding sounds and ideas that help bring the audience into the world that we [moviemakes] are all trying to create. Sometimes that's with synthesizers, and sometimes that's with French horns. I love using all of them, depending on the scenario.

  Joseph Trapanese

  Ideas, Trying, World

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Lord is my strength, my strong rock, my defense, my deliverer, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge. Amen.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Strong, Rocks, Defense

  6 Copy quote

• The oboe's a horn made of wood.
  I'd play you a tune if I could,
  But the reeds are a pain,
  And the fingering's insane.
  It's the ill wind that no one blows good.

  Ogden Nash

  Pain, Blow, Wind

  31 Copy quote

• But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.

  T. S. Eliot

  Daughter, Time, Spring

  The Waste Land l. 196 (1922)

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight
  No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.

  Joanna Newsom

  Twilight, Thorns, Born

  Song: Sawdust and Diamonds, Album: Ys, 2006

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• The government pretends to be endowed with the mystical power to accord favors out of an inexhaustible horn of plenty. It is both omniscient and omnipotent. It can by a magic wand create happiness and abundance. The truth is the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Giving, Magic

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.78, VM eBooks

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• My first job was in a Bohemian polka band, the Rejcek family polka band in Abbott. The old man in the band had another blacksmith shop in Abbott, but he liked me. All he had was horns and drums, and I was set up over there with my little guitar with no amps or nothing. I would play as loud as I wanted to, and nobody could hear me.

  Willie Nelson

  Jobs, Men, Guitar

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2015.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you don't toot your own horn, someone else will use it as a spittoon.

  Ken Blanchard

  Use, Ifs

  4 Copy quote

• Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

  Edward Young

  Peace, Archer, Moon

  Edward Young, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edward Young”, p.29

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• This business can be very frustrating but there is success story after success story of people who take the bull by the horns. Actors who are frustrated ... [should] do your own project. Find a writer, shoot a movie. It can be done.

  Tony Shalhoub

  People, Frustrated, Done

  "Tony Shalhoub tries something new". Interview with Stephanie Snipes, www.cnn.com. April 10, 2004.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If anyone asks you if you’re taken,” I said, “the answer is yes.” “I think I can live with that,” he promised. “Good,” I said. “Because you don’t want to see me be cross.” “Too late.” “Shut up and dance, Walt.” “Shut up and dance, Walt.” We did—with the music of a psychotic griffin screaming behind us, and the sirens and horns of Brooklyn wailing below. It was quite romantic.

  Rick Riordan

  Taken, Thinking, Too Late

  7 Copy quote

• Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it when I hear it. It sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to to them.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Wind, Sound

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.26, Harper Collins

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master.

  Sylvia Plath

  World, Sickness, Victim

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.516, Anchor

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I knelt and opened up my lute case. Moving the lute aside, I pressed the lid of the secret compartment and twisted it open. I slid Threpe's sealed letter inside, where it joined the hollow horn with Nina's drawing and a small sack of dried apple I had stowed there. There was nothing special about the dried apple, but in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Moving, Apples, Drawing

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.344, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I hate to toot my own horn but I just feel that I know people and I know fans and I don't feel there is that Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt barrier with me. I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me.

  Hulk Hogan

  Hate, People, Fans

  39 Copy quote

• I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Play, Piano, Tubas

  5 Copy quote

• My best and worst 'Idol' moments? I don't have a worst 'Idol' moment... I've been spectacular. Yes, I am going to toot my own horn. And then my best moment is every single moment. I'll toot it again!

  Nicki Minaj

  Idols, Moments, Worst

  "BWW Interview - Nicki Minaj: 'I've Been Spectacular' on AMERICAN IDOL". Interview With Tyler Peterson, www.broadwayworld.com. March 26, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn.

  Kid Rock

  Thinking, Good Person, Grades

  "Kid Rock talks titles and hair before Woodlands show". Interview with Andrew Dansby, www.chron.com. August 7, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Years, Records, Singers

  52 Copy quote

• They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and the lights in the windows went out. A voice shouted in the dark: 'Who's that? Be off! You can't come in. Can't you read the notice: No admittance between sundown and sunrise?' 'Of course we can't read the notice in the dark,' Sam shouted back. 'And if hobbits of the Shire are to be kept out in the wet on a night like this, I'll tear down your notice when I find it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, Night, Light

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Just because a guy rings your bell, doesn't mean you have to toot his horn.

  C.C. Hunter

  Mean, Guy, Bells

  4 Copy quote

• Why is she afraid?" he asked. "She's not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She's never seen a foreigner close to before." "Tell her when the moon's full, barbarians sprout horns and fire comes out of our mouths like dragons.

  James Clavell

  Moon, Fire, Dragons

  James Clavell (1975). “Shogun a Novel of Japan”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.

  Patrick Ness

  Powerful, Sky, Sound

  4 Copy quote