Zitat des Tages über Messing / Brass:
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?
'Liberty Brass' is a small machine that unfolds in a single unpunctuated wave, which is interrupted by the rotating sign, the refrain. Each part is meant to do its work in relentless progression.
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
I've grown up in the Treme, and I played in a bunch of brass bands. My brother, James Andrews, had a brass band.
Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring.
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.
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.
When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
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.
I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story just beyond my reach. To grasp that brass ring I need to continue to fine-tune my talents.
If the most deeply interconnected individuals can exemplify the behaviors that your official top brass sets out, then the rest of the organization will follow suit.
It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.
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.
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.
I grew up right in the heart of Treme, so it was a real music neighborhood, and there was a bunch of bands like the Dirty Dozen Brass Band around.
As far back as 2008, the Canadian Forces brass was explicit: drones with 'all-weather precision strike capabilities' were a 'requirement' for Canada's overseas operations.
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
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.
I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle Seymour made, a brass grotesque he mounted on a marble base. And my grandfather's shaving cup is there, used to store pencils and pens.
I've had so much success. I had something to say, I got to say it, people heard it, and they agreed. That's every artist's dream. That's the brass ring.
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.
I just remember watching 'Brass Eye' and being so utterly blown away by the scope of it and how much it managed to cram into an episode.
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.
Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.
From the food to the Mardi Gras Indians to the brass bands and the second liners parading through the street, Jazz Fest presents New Orleans in one place.
I would die of pleasure if 'The Day Today' or 'Brass Eye' came back. Though there's something really special about the fact that they only did one series of each.
I grew up listening to the Neville Brothers and the Rebirth Brass Band.
